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Thread #6681   Message #870630
Posted By: Charley Noble
20-Jan-03 - 12:22 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Been All Around This World
Subject: Lyr Add: I'VE BEEN ALL AROUND THE WORLD
Thee's yet another version of this song in Sigmund Spaeth's WEEP SOME MORE MY LADY, pp. 130, which he collected from Robert Wildhack, an illustrator living at the time in California:

I'VE BEEN ALL AROUND THE WORLD

Bring to me my supper, boys, I'll eat her done or raw (2X)
For I haven't had a square meal since I left old Arkansas,
Gaw damn, I've been all around the world.

It's on the Blue Ridge Mountains. Oh there I'll take my stand (2X)
My rifle on my shoulder, six-shooter in my hand...

The railroad is finsihed, boys, the cars is on the track (2X)
You can take me from my baby, but money will bring me back...

Come to me, my honey, and I will pay your fine (2X)
And each all your troubles I surely will make mine...

The bulls will never get me, and I will tell you why (2X)
For I'm going to wander and travel till I die...

I was always fond of the way John Sondell (?) used to sing this one, words being close to "Working on the New Railroad" in the DT.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble