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Lyr Req: Don't Monkey 'Round My Widder (C Davis)

23 Jan 10 - 08:37 AM (#2819327)
Subject: Lyr Req: Dont you monkey round my widder when i'm
From: oombanjo

Hi any one know where I can find Doc & Chets lyrics for this song. I have found some that were close. But i remember a phrase "I'll haurnt you boy" in the version I'm after,it doesn't appear in any of the versions I have tracked down. cheers Oombanjo


23 Jan 10 - 03:41 PM (#2819759)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dont you monkey round my widder when i'm
From: GUEST,999--listen to them do it on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05beIXeAi2s


23 Jan 10 - 05:57 PM (#2819870)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dont you monkey round my widder when i'm
From: Joe_F

There is a livelier version on the Unholy Modal Rounders' _Have Moicy_, including such charming stanzas as

My gal's got class and a temper too.
She can make a monkey out of all of you.

And if any you folks try and misbehave,
I'll haunt your asses to an early grave.


24 Jan 10 - 09:22 AM (#2820278)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dont you monkey round my widder when i'm
From: oombanjo

thanks guys I can get it from that.cheers Oombanjo


25 Jan 10 - 07:24 PM (#2821482)
Subject: Lyr Add: DON'T MONKEY 'ROUND MY WIDDER (C Davis)
From: Jim Dixon

Here's my transcription from the YouTube recording, with discographical information from Allmusic.com:


DON'T MONKEY 'ROUND MY WIDDER
Carl Davis

1. My fever's runnin' high an' I'm suff'rin' with a cold,
An' I'll soon be a-walkin' on the streets of gold,
An' I'll ask you, boy,
Not to monkey round my widder when I'm gone.

2. If you monkey round my widder, I'm a-tellin' you the fact:
My big white ghost'll come a-sneakin' back,
An' I'll haint you, boy,
If you monkey round my widder when I'm gone.

3. My honey's told me over and over again:
There'll be no more sparkin' after I check in.
I'll ask you, boy, (oh, yeah?)
Don't you monkey round my widder when I'm gone.

4. If you monkey round my widder, I'm a tellin' you true:
Some dark night I'll scare the hell out o' you.
I'll haint you, boy,
If you monkey round my widder when I'm gone.

5. Oh, her cookin' is good an' her lovin' is fine,
But when I leave this world, she'll still be mine.
Now I'll ask you, boy,
Not to monkey round my widder when I'm gone.

REPEAT 2

6. I'll soon be leavin' this world of sin,
One purty woman with a lot o' you men,
An' I'll tell you, boy,
Don't you monkey round my widder when I'm gone.

REPEAT 2

I'll haint you, boy,
If you monkey round my widder when I'm gone.

[As sung by Chet Atkins and Doc Watson on "Reflections" (1980) and on Chet Atkins' album "The RCA Years, 1947-1981" (1992). "Reflections" has been reissued, combined with the Chet Atkins/Merle Travis album "Atkins-Travis Traveling Show", as 2-LPs-turned-into-1-CD (2008).]