Richie

I hear some minor differences in Uncle Dave's 'Sourwood Mt Medley'. You left out, perhaps deliberately, his little spoken joke at the beginning:

[Spoken] Hello folks, I was walking down the street with one of the ugliest men I ever saw in my life. We passed a really pretty girl, and the ugly fellow said, 'Did you see that girl smile at me?' ' Well', I said, 'Good Lord, man, that's nothing. First time I saw you, I laughed outright. Ha, ha, ha!'

I too cannot decipher the 'Tandam' mystery word(s), but my other minor variations from your transcription are as follows:

Stanza 1, line 2      'a poor boy' rather than 'the poor boy'

Chorus: 'Ain't gwine' in every instance rather 'ain't gonna get' in first instance.

Stanza 3, line 1:   'Had a big boom in Florida, boys,

Stanza 4, line 2: 'Jenny put the kettle on, the banks have gone' rather than 'done gone'

Stanza 5:   The 'Tandam' or whatever puzzles me too.   It may well be a name, but the most likely culprits at the time – Governor Henry Horner and Henry Lea don't sound anything like it and, besides, they were ripping off Tennessee to the tune of millions rather than thousands. It could be that he is singing 'bad men' or something equally as simple. I will keep after it.

Stanza 6, line 2:   'the banks have gone' .

Spoken bit, line 2:   'nothing' rather than 'anything'; line 4, 'Folks I had had to'

Chorus: 'Ain't gwine'

Stanza 7, line 2: 'and the people's look do show it'.

Stanza 8: 'banks have gone'

Chorus: 'Ain't gwine'.

The recording I was listening to was reissued on Uncle Dave Macon 'Country Music Hall of Fame Series' MCA MCAD-10546.

Do we have any other takers to have a throw at the stumps?

--Stewie.