SHOO FLY, DON'T YOU BOTHER ME

Long banjo intro

Spoken: Hot dog! Get around here!

I went up to New York
I'se walkin' down Broadway
All them pretty girls lookin' at me
You oughta heard me say

Chorus:
Shoo fly, don't you bother me (x3)
For I belong to Tennessee

George Washington was a great man
A lie he'd never tell
But when he got the hatchet
Give that cherry tree hallelujah

Chorus

Trouble in the kitchen
It's worse up over head
Me love she said she'd have me, boys
She'd like to kill me dead

Chorus

Instrumental break

Chorus

An old man come mopin' in,
He's tired out of life
A young man comes skippin' in,
'Run kiss me, my dear wife'

Chorus

Snow up on the mountain
Sunshine on the lake
Hard times never get this child
He's too wide awake

Chorus

Source: transcription of Uncle Dave Macon 'Shoo Fly, Don't You Bother Me' recorded 9 Sept 1926 in NYC and issued as Vocalion 15448 in December 1926 and as Vocalion 5010 in February 1927. Reissued on Uncle Dave Macon 'Fun In Life' Bear Family LP 15519.

See the SHOO FLY thread for information on this song.

--Stewie.