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Thread #155412   Message #3655717
Posted By: Jim Dixon
01-Sep-14 - 12:39 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Bowling Green - folk
Subject: Lyr Add: BOWLING GREEN (from Cousin Emmy)
Not quite the one you wanted, but I am doing the easy ones first:

BOWLING GREEN
As sung by Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers*

1. I wisht I was in Bowling Green, setting in my chair,
One arm around my purty little gal, an' the other'n round my dear,
Other'n round my dear.
Bowling Green, oh, good ol' Bowling Green.

2. Ever see that man of mine, tell him once for me,
If he loves another gal, I will set him free.
Yes, I'll set him free.
Bowling Green, oh, good ol' Bowling Green.

3. Wisht I was a bumblebee sailing through the air.
Take my feller by my side; touch** him if you dare.
Touch** him if you dare.
Bowling Green, oh, good ol' Bowling Green.

4. I'm goin' through this wide old world, goin' through alone.
I'm goin' through this wide old world; I ain't got no home.
I ain't got no home.
Bowling Green, oh, good ol' Bowling Green.

Bowling Green, oh, good ol' Bowling Green.

* Verses 1, 2, & 4 appear on:
"New Lost City Ramblers with Cousin Emmy," 1968.
Various artists, "Classic Old-Time Music from Smithsonian Folkways," 2003.
New Lost City Ramblers, "50 Years: Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go?" 2009.
Verses 1, 2, 3, & 4 appear on:
Cousin Emmy: "Kentucky Mountain Ballads," 2009.

** "Touch" is pronounced "tetch"—which caused me at first to mistake it as "catch."