Here's a very different version of the text (I think) that I stumbled upon by happenstance today, as related by Roanoke, Virginia resident Lycurgus Drumheller in 1939: I know you have played ‘Killyme Kranky.’ It was more like a march and went like this: Farewell Dick and farewell Tom, Farewell old Aunt Franky; Every time I think of you I’ll wind up Killyme Kranky. If you have been where I have been, And seen the sights that I have seen; Four and twenty girls, All dancing Killyme Kranky. Roanoke, story of county and city p. 126
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