Lyr ADD: Down the Ohio (from New Christy Minstrels

Subject: Lyrics for 'Down the Ohio' (Music)
From: JR
Date: 19 Jul 99 - 06:03 PM

The one that includes

I don't know, but I been told Down the Ohio All that glitters can't be gold Down the ohio.

Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Down the Ohio' (Music)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Sep 99 - 04:02 PM

JR - is this the Christy Minstrels song you were looking for? I think I have this on CD and can transcribe it for you tomorrow, but I gotta get some work done tomorrow. Give us a bit more detail about what you know about the song.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Down the Ohio' (Music)
From: JR
Date: 13 Sep 99 - 03:56 PM

Yes Joe this is the one. I learned it from the record in the 60's & by sometine in the 80's only the tune & a coule lines were left.

Subject: Lyr Add: DOWN THE OHIO (New Christy Minstrels)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Sep 99 - 04:40 AM

DOWN THE OHIO
(as recorded by the New Christy Minstrels)

Come along, children, and sing your happy song
Play it on your old banjo.
Get on board, we're sailing down the river,
Sailing down the Ohio.

We do we do on a Saturday night?
Down the Ohio
Kiss the girls in the pale moonlight
Down the Ohio

I don't know, but I've been told
Down the Ohio
All that glitters can't be gold.
Down the Ohio

[Chorus]
Why don't you..
Come on, children, and sing a happy song
Play it on your old banjo.
Get on board, we're sailing down the river,
Sailing down the Ohio.

Now, if I die in Arkansas,
Down the Ohio
Send me "collect" to my mother-in-law
Down the Ohio

[Chorus]
[Instrumental break]

Dance little Liza dance, dance little Liza dance;
Dance all night in the pale moonlight
And we'll all go home in the morning.

Hi, ho, and away we go,
Sittin' (?) on the river, on the Ohio
Hi, ho, and away we go,
Sittin' on the river, on the Ohio


Written or arranged by Randy Sparks, no doubt.
On the New Christy Minstrels album, Ramblin' (1963).
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Down the Ohio' (Music)
From: JR
Date: 20 Sep 99 - 10:48 AM

Back from a coupl days off, & both songs waiting on Monday morning. Thanks again Joe. Hope you recover from sleep deprevation.

Subject: Ik geef je een roosje mijn roosje
From:
Date: 21 Sep 99 - 06:13 AM

Looking for the Dutch text to "ik geef je een roosje mijn roosje" by Liesbeth List.

Subject: RE: Lyrics for 'Down the Ohio' (Music)
From: JR
Date: 21 Sep 99 - 10:48 AM

What did he say?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Down the Ohio (from New Christy Minstrels
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jan 24 - 07:38 PM

THANK YOU!