Lyr Req: Buffalo Girls

Subject: lyrics to buffalo girls and one tin soldier
From:
Date: 16 Mar 97 - 12:51 AM

could anybody send me the lyrics to "buffalo girls" and to "one tin soldier"?
Many thanks from the gardner family.

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Subject: buffalo girls & one tin soldier please
From:
Date: 16 Mar 97 - 12:55 AM

Hello I'm looking for the lyrics to "buffalo girls" & to "one tin soldier". Thanks very much.

Subject: RE: buffalo girls & one tin soldier please
From:
Date: 16 Mar 97 - 12:56 AM

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Subject: Lyr Add: BUFFALO GALS (from John and Alan Lomax)
From: Ralph Butts
Date: 16 Mar 97 - 12:36 PM

BUFFALO GALS (traditional) from "Folk Song USA" John and Alan Lomax
Buffalo gals, woncha come out tonight,
Woncha come out tonight, woncha come out tonight?
Buffalo gals, woncha come out tonight,
And dance by the light of the moon?

I danced with a gal with a hole in her stockin',
And her heel kep' a-rockin' and her toe kep' a-knockin',
I danced with a gal with a hole in her stockin',
And we danced by the light of the moon.

O yes, pretty boys, we're comin' out tonight,
We're comin' out tonight, we're comin' out tonight,
O yes, pretty boys, we're comin' out tonight,
And dance by the light of the moon.

I danced with a gal with a hole in her stockin',
And her heel kep' a-rockin' and her toe kep' a-knockin',
I danced with a gal with a hole in her stockin',
An' her heel kep' a-rockin' to the moon.

Subject: Lyr Add: BUFFALO GALS and ONE TIN SOLDIER
From: rich r
Date: 16 Mar 97 - 09:50 PM

BUFFALO GALS

Other verses - In most cases the last part of the first line is repeated 3 times, these phrases are in ()

As I was walking (down the street)
A pretty girl I chanced to meet under the silvery moon

I asked her if she'd (stop and talk)
Her feet covered up the whole sidewalk, she was fair to view

I asked her if she'd stop and dance, Have a dance, care to dance
I thought that I might get a chance to shake a foot with her

I asked her if she'd (be my wife)
Then I'd be happy all my life if she'd marry me
ALT. (I'd be so very happy all my life, if she were by my side)

I danced with the dolly with a hole in her stocking
And her feet kept a-rocking & her knees kept a-knocking
O I danced with the dolly with a hole in her stocking
And we danced by the light of the moon.

The song was a popular play party or square dance song in many parts of the country. The following verses are some of the variants that were used directly in the dance calling.

Break and bounce with (the couple on the right)
Break and bounce with the couple on the right and swing four hands around.

Everybody wait ('til we get all around)
Everybody wait 'til we get all around and swing four hands around.

First lady swing with the right hand gent, with the right hand round, with the right hand round
Partner with the left and the left hand round, lady in the center and seven hands round
ALT.... (birdie in a cage and seven hands round.)

Ain't you coming out tonight, ain't you coming out tonight?
And birdie hop out and a crow hop in
Lady swing out and the gent swing in
And join your hands (paddies) and go round again.

ONE TIN SOLDIER
words & music by D. Lambert & B. Potter, (c) 1969 Cents and Pence Musique Co.

1. (D) Listen children (A) to a story (Bm) that was written long ago,
(G) 'bout a kingdom (D) on a mountain (Em7) and the valley folk below.
(D) On the mountain (A) was a treasure (Bm) buried deep beneath a stone
(G) And the valley (D) people swore they'd (Em7) have it for their very (D) own. (GD)

CHORUS: (D) Go ahead and hate your (F#m) neighbor, (G) go ahead and cheat a (D) friend.
Do it in the name of (F#m) heaven, (G) justify it in the (D) end.
There won't be any trumpets (F#m) blowin' (G) come the judgment (D) day
On the bloody morning (G) after, one tin (A) soldier rides (D) away (GDGD)

2. So the people of the valley sent a message up the hill,
Asking for the buried treasure, tons of gold for which they'd kill
Came the answer from the kingdom, "With our brothers we will share
All the secrets of our mountain, all the riches buried there." CHORUS

3. Now the valley cried with anger, mount your horses, draw your sword,
And they killed the mountain people so they won their just reward.
Now they stood beside the treasure on the mountain, dark and red,
Turned the stone and looked beneath it. "Peace on earth" was all it said. CHORUS

Subject: Lyr Add: BUFFALO GALS
From:
Date: 18 Mar 97 - 10:32 AM

4/4 in C

Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight, come out tonight, come out tonight.
Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight and dance by the light of the moon.

v1. As I was walking down the street, down the street, down the street.
A pretty woman I chanced to meet, and we danced by the light of the moon.

v2. Oh, yes, pretty boys, we're coming out tonight...etc.

v3. I danced with a gal with a hole in her stocking,
And her feet kept a-rockin and her toe kept a knocking.
I danced...
And we danced by the light of the moon.