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Thread #68090   Message #1142588
Posted By: Joe_F
21-Mar-04 - 09:41 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Whippoorwill Song (from Patsy Stoneman)
Subject: Lyr Add: WHIPPOORWILL (John Graves)
There are several songs so called to be found in the Forum. It might be one of those, or the following from _The Coffeehouse Song Book_:

Whippoorwill sing to me,
Of a tall straight gum and an old oak tree,
Where a young boy's mind climbed so free,
Whippoorwill won't you sing to me, please sing.

Robert White whistle loud,
OF a sleeping land that I once saw plowed,
Where I saw my first snake in a puffy white cloud,
Robert White won't you whistle loud, please whistle.

Bullfrog, bullfrog, you're gettin; mighty bold,
Won't you whoop one time in my old swimmin' hole,
Where you jumped from the reach of my long gettin' pole,
To save the voice that soothes my soul, bullfrog soothes my soul.

Well I'll never see the tall gum or this old oak tree,
This fast old world, now she's a blindin' me,
Or I'll never swim again at my old swimmin' hole,
Or hear the whoop that soothes my soul, please come again to me,
Please come again to me.

Written by John Graves (Shreveport, La.)