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Thread #3031   Message #14282
Posted By: Sir
08-Oct-97 - 05:00 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: True Blue Bill (from Gene Autry)
Subject: True Blue Bill
My father, who knew many folk songs and instilled in his children a love for them, used to sing a comic song called "True Blue Bill" which I suspect was not really folk but a Gene Autry song. I would appreciate hearing from any who would know it. The words started out "Oh, I'm a truthfull fellow, they call me True Blue Bill. I never told a falsehood and I bet I never will" and "I was raised up in the mountains where all the snakes have legs. Where the hoot owls speak in English and the roosters lay square eggs. I shaved my beard and moustash the morning I was born. I beat up my old man and drank his rye and corn. Oh I'm a truthfull fellow they call me True Blue Bill...." Sir