Thanks, all. Helen got he right link. I was hoping someone had already transcribed the words so I wouldn't have to. Stompin' Tom's version begins: I was livin' in the city where you never get to know Why they never play a fiddle on the radio, Then one day I met a country girl And now I'm a-livin' in another world. When I get the time and energy I'll finish the transcription and post it to the 'cat. The tune is, as Helen commented, "rollicking good" and a staple at the old time jams from decades ago. Stompin' Tom's addition of words to the fiddle tune belongs in a class of late-word-additions-to established-wordless-tunes, in which category I would also place Grian MacGregor's fine word's to Jay Unger's Ashokan Farewell. But maybe that's a subject for another thread.
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