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DAMYANKEE LAD (Jimmie Driftwoood) I'm just a Damyankee way down in the South I love to kiss Southern belles in the mouth I laugh when they say all Damyankees are bad For nobody knows I'm a Damyankee Lad. When I found old Sherman had left me behind A very strange notion came into my mind I dressed up in grey and I made up a spiel And I headed straight for the town of Mobile. CHORUS I'm having fun like I never have had Nobody knows I'm a Damyankee Lad Not far from Atlanta I heard people say Old Sherman had taken the food all away 'Twas there that I smiled on a lovely Mad-dam Who fed me on honey and peaches and ham I stopped in the country and got in a tight Where six widows claimed me and had a big fight I had to be slick as a slippery eel To get on my way to the town of Mobile CHORUS I got to Mobile and I found a Creole She captured my heart an' she captured my soul It's been twenty years since I made up my spiel And went on my Damyankee way to Mobile. I've raised a fine family of girls and young men They swear that damn Yankees are all full of sin They'd call you a liar if you said their dad Had marched to Mobile as a Damyankee Lad CHORUS When I get so old that I'm ready to die I'll put on my uniform blue as the sky They'll march 'round my coffin and won't they get mad When they learn that I was a DamnYankee Lad. REPEAT VERSE 1 CHORUS SOURCE: The Wilderness Road And Jimmie Driftwood @Confederate filename[ DAMYANK Feb07 |
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