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Thread #51808   Message #792750
Posted By: GUEST,Richie
27-Sep-02 - 10:06 PM
Thread Name: Origin of Ida Red
Subject: RE: Origin of Ida Red
Here's the lyrics from the last post. I had already transcribed them. Hard to hear the last line.

Idy Red
Pat Ford, unaccompanied vocals 1938; Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Boomtown [Central Valley], Shasta County, California. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Central Valley, California on December 27, 1938.

Down the river and across the creek,
I ain't had a letter in 'bout a week.

Idy Red she ain't no fool,
But you can't put a saddle on a humpbacked mule.

Idy Red, Idy Black,
Y'all keep a pushin' Miss Idy back.

Idy red, Idy green,
Always keep a treatin' Miss Idy mean.

Dranked all the whiskey I had in the still
Goin' down to Lexington to get my bottle filled.

Talk about tabbacy, to leave me some skin,
*Come workin' on her 'cause gonna go wild again

*last line hard to understand, might need some help.

-Richie