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Thread #49846 Message #3622133
Posted By: Joe Offer
25-Apr-14 - 12:30 AM
Thread Name: DT Attribution & Minor Corrections PermaThread
Subject: RE: DT Attribution & Minor Corrections PermaThread
"Dooley," recorded by the Dillards, is unattributed, has mondegreens, and appears twice in the Digital Tradition:
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This thread has the whole story, but there are corrected lyrics from Stewie:
DOOLEY
(Rodney Dillard/Mitch Jayne)
Now Dooley was a good old man, he lived below the mill
Dooley had two daughters and a forty-gallon still
One girl watched the boiler, the other watched the spout
Mama corked the bottles when ol' Dooley fetched them out
CHORUS
Dooley, slippin' up the holler
Dooley, tryin' to make a dollar
Dooley, gimme a swaller
And I'll pay you back some day
Now Dooley was a trader when into town he'd come
Sugar by the bushel and molasses by the drum
The revenuers came for him, slippin' through the woods
Dooley kept behind them all and never lost his goods
CHORUS
Now I remember very well the day old Dooley died
The women folk looked sorry and the men stood around and cried
Now Dooley's on the mountain, he lies there all alone
They put a jug beside him and a barrel for a stone
CHORUS [last line repeated]
The lyrics above are from the original Dillards recording of the song. Later recordings switched the couplets in the second verse:
The revenuers came for him, slippin' through the woods
Dooley kept behind them all and never lost his goods
Now Dooley was a trader when into town he'd come
Sugar by the bushel and molasses by the drum
(as performed by the Dillards on the Andy Griffith Show)
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