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peregrina	Lyr Req: Hobart Smith's Cuckoo - one early verse (18)	RE: Lyr Req: Hobart Smith's Cuckoo - one early verse	02 Feb 14
There's a site with Hobart Smith's lyrics, tune transcription in notes and tab here, with the words of this clip (Lomax recording) as well as the words from the recording of Hobart singing the same song, different words, on the Fleming Brown tapes (later reissued as a folkways CD) Hobart Smith's Cuckoo birds, Lomax and Brown recordings, at Banjology That site gives this for the lines on the Lomax version that you've asked about: "Old Kimball / gave me money / ? / he bet more. Old Kimball / ? / through the keyhole / in the door." an audio program tells me that at least one of the breaks (before 'keyhole' is a break in the recording.

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