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Thread #53820   Message #831596
Posted By: Stewie
21-Nov-02 - 09:53 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Hook and Line (and related songs)
Subject: Lyr Add: SHOUT LITTLE LULU
Richie

Here's a short one recorded by Lomaxes:

SHOUT LITTLE LULU

A whole heap of nickels and a whole heap of dimes
A-going to see my Lulu gal a whole heap of times

Shout, Little Lulu, shout your best
Your old grandmother's in hell I guess

I'd give a nickel and I'd give a dime
To see my Lulu gal cut a monkeyshine

Source: Duncan Emrich 'American Folk Poetry: An Anthology' Little, Brown and Co p 64. Recorded by Alan and Elizabeth Lomax from the singing, with banjo accompaniment, by Pete Steele at Hamilton, Ohio, 1938. Library of Congress record LP21.

I have some info on Dink Roberts' 'Roustabout' which I will post for you tomorrow.

--Stewie.