Hello everyone,

Here is a field recorded version of this song titled "Poor Willie" as sung by Sarah Curry on 28 April 2005.  She learned this at New Mexico State as a drinking song...sometime between 1960-64

POOR WILLIE  (recording)

T'was a dark and stormy night
And the moon was shinin' bright
And the flowers, they was droopin' in the mud,
When the doctors, they decided
That to save my darlin' child,
They'd have to stop the circulation of his blood.

So, they dipped his darlin' head
In a pot of boilin' lead,
And they laid my little Willy down to rest.
But the robbers came at night,
And they came without a light,
And they stole the mustard plaster off his chest.

No more, Little Brat,
To tease the pussy-cat,
No more between his teeth
To pull it's tail ...
No more to rub its nose
On the red-hot kitchen stove,
Cuz my Darlin' Willy's gone and kicked the pail.
[Spoken] Poor Willy!