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Thread #51808 Message #791260
Posted By: GUEST
25-Sep-02 - 05:07 PM
Thread Name: Origin of Ida Red
Subject: RE: Origin of Ida Red
These verses are supposedly from Poole's "Shootin' Creek" 1928, using Cripple Creek tune.
Buy me a horse and make me a sled Nobody rides with Ida Red Ida Red she lives in town She weighs four hundred and forty pounds.
Ida Red she's a darned old fool Tried to put a saddle on a humpbacked mule Up the road and across the creek Can't get a letter but once a week.
Going up Shootin' Creek, going in a run Going up Shootin' Creek, have a little fun.
Going up Shootin' Creek, going in a run Take my razor and a Gatling gun.