Lyr Add: Gator Hollow (Mel Tillis)

Subject: Lyr Add: GATER HOLLOW (from Burl Ives)
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Date: 15 Jul 03 - 12:33 PM

Gater Hollow (From Burl Ives' The Nashville Years 5-CD set)

Well I had me a girl, in Mocassin Valley
In the peaceful everglades
The folks all called her "Fa-ho-key Sally"
The sweetest girl that the good Lord ever made

We planned our home in Gater Hollow
For skinnin' gators was my life
She promised that she'd always love me
And be my happy little gator-skinnin' wife

One day a man come up from Miam-uh*
And took my sweet little Sal away
I was mistookin' for I went lookin'
'Cause it hurt my pride to hear those Glade folks say:

He had a girl in in Mocassin Valley
In the peaceful everglades
Her hair was gold, just like an angel's
But the cheapest gal that the devil ever made

I found them winin', down in Miam-uh*,
In an all-night club cafe,
They was laughing, and they was joking
About that Gator Man that they thought was far away.

Now my gator's are a little bit fatter
I got one with a golden hide
Soon I'll be leavin', for Edward's prison
I lost my gal but I didn't lose my pride.

*("Miami" with a southern accent, like sounds like the ending of the word "Alabama".)

Subject: RE: Gater Hollow Lyrics
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 08:43 PM

I notice, on AMG, the song GATER HOLLOW is attributed to "Tillis". Would that be Mel Tillis?

AMG also lists a song called 'GATOR HOLLOW (note spelling) recorded by Lefty Frizzell on "Life's Like Poetry", a 12-disk box. There it's attributed to "Tills" which I assume is a misspelling.

According to BMI, GATOR HOLLOW was indeed written by Mel Tillis.