Lyr Req: Peg Leg Jack

Subject: peg leg jack? - lyrics
From: mryan
Date: 15 Jan 99 - 05:54 PM

I am looking for the lyrics for a short but interesting song entitled Peg Leg Jack. It begins with the lyrics, "Peg-Leg Jack went out one night to get a little gin. He went up to the landlord's door. The landlord wasn't in..."

I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could help me with the remaining lyrics.

Thanks.

Subject: RE: peg leg jack?
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Jan 99 - 08:52 PM

My dad used to sing this, esp. for us kids, when I was growing up and my mom has it on an old 78, it's on the flip side of Barnacle Bill the Sailor Man.

I called dad. He said if no one else came up with it, he was pretty sure he could remember most of the words. He's been thinking about adding it in to the mix he sings, so said he'd work on refreshing his memory this weekend.

I'll keep an eye on this thread and if it looks like I need to, I'll ring him back & get him to give them to me, then post them for you.

We always loved to hear this song; dad made it a lot of fun by rapping loudly on the table at the appropriate times. Somewhere there are lyris about Pegleg giving a "Rap rap rap" upon somebody's door.

Katlaughing

Subject: RE: peg leg jack?
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Jan 99 - 08:53 PM

My dad used to sing this, esp. for us kids, when I was growing up and my mom has it on an old 78, it's on the flip side of Barnacle Bill the Sailor Man.

I called dad. He said if no one else came up with it, he was pretty sure he could remember most of the words. He's been thinking about adding it in to the mix he sings, so said he'd work on refreshing his memory this weekend.

I'll keep an eye on this thread and if it looks like I need to, I'll ring him back & get him to give them to me, then post them for you.

We always loved to hear this song; dad made it a lot of fun by rapping loudly on the table at the appropriate times. Somewhere there are lyrics about Pegleg giving a "Rap rap rap" upon somebody's door.

Katlaughing

Subject: RE: peg leg jack?
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Jan 99 - 08:54 PM

Sorry, thought I got it stopped before it sent out the first time - wanted to fix a typo!

Subject: Lyr Add: PEG-LEG JACK
From: Frank Maher
Date: 15 Jan 99 - 09:04 PM

It's not very short –

PEG-LEG JACK

Peg-Leg Jack went out one night to get a little gin.
He went down to the landlord's house and the landlord wasn't in.
He rapped, he rapped, he rapped, he rapped, he rapped all night in vain,
When all of a sudden a knock, knock, knock, come on the windowpane.

Up to the window he turned his head, and there a maid he spied.
He thought by the way that she (sound of 3 knocks) that she would be his bride.
“Come down, come down,” said Peg-Leg Jack, “and sit on the porch with me,”
And down she come and she sat on the porch, as pretty as ever you see.

Oh, they billed and they cooed and they kissed and they loved.
They hugged and they squeezed and they turtle-doved.
They honeyed and sweetied and babied-my-pet.
They sparked and cuddled and there they sat.

Then of a sudden here come her father, a-drivin' the village hack.
With a roar and a bellow and "hey, young fellow", he started for Peg-Leg Jack.
Jack lit out with a yip and a shout, for life to him was sweet,
And Jack's peg leg went knock, knock, knock, upon the village street.

“Goodbye, my lover,” the maiden cried, “I hope you don't get killed.”
Her old man grabbed his pistol out, with powder and bullets filled.
Jack bumped into a big fat lady, and fell in a puddle kersplash!
The old man's pistol went bang, bang, bang, as down the road they dashed.

Oh, they raced and they chased and they galloped and they crawled.
They snarled and they yelled and they hollered and they bawled,
Dodged and ducked and hopped up and down,
Back and forth and round and round.

Jack climbed up into a tree and thought he'd saved his skin,
But the woodpeckers pecked on his old peg leg, and they drove him down again.
He ran into a neighbor's barn and the old man followed him in.
A mule got sore and whaled away, and kicked him out again.

Peg-Leg Jack, he ran kersmack, into the constabule,
Who joined the chase with the girl's old man, the fat lady and the mule.
They chased poor Jack around and round, and round a big haystack.
The old man ran round the other way and he grabbed poor Peg-Leg Jack.

Oh, Jack hit her pappy and her pappy hit back.
Their noses got red and their eyes got black.
They wrestled and the tussled and they cussed and they swore.
They barked their knuckles and their clothes they tore.

The old mule cried, the fat lady screamed, the constabule let out a yell.
He grabbed the old man by the collar and locked him in the cell.
Peg-Leg Jack, he hurried back, the maiden for to wed,
But found that she had gone and married a soldier boy instead.

Oh, poor Jack cried and he bellowed and he swore,
Grabbed him a ship and he sailed from the shore,
Sailed away as fast as sin,
And that was the last they seen of him.





T!!!!!!!!

Subject: thanks
From: mryan
Date: 18 Jan 99 - 07:53 AM

Thanks for the info. The version that I heard was much shorter, but your version makes more sense. In the one I have, the constable thhrows the old man in jail, but there is no explaination as to why. Many of the verses or parts of the verses that you mentioned were not present.

Thanks very much!

Subject: RE: peg leg jack?
From: GUEST,Paul F. Anderson
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 08:48 PM

"Peg Leg Jack" was released in 1929 on the Brunswick label. It was recorded by Carson Robison and His Pioneers. According to the All Music Guide and other sites, the song was written by Carson Robison and Frank Luther. The 1929 recording can be found on the CD "Home On The Range: 20 Western Favourites" and at the Rhapsody online music service.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWFvqcR2yyg

Subject: RE: peg leg jack?
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 11:44 PM

Tommy Makem also recorded it.

Subject: RE: peg leg jack?
From: kendall
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 07:30 AM

So did Doc Williams.

Subject: RE: peg leg jack?
From: GUEST,Black Hawk
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 07:35 AM

So did Tex Morton - along with Barnacle Bill !!

Subject: RE: peg leg jack?
From: GUEST,Black Hawk
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 07:37 AM

I mean he recorded Barnacle Bill, not that Barnacle Bill recorded with Tex ...........(oops !!)