The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #84248   Message #1623981
Posted By: Jim Dixon
09-Dec-05 - 06:57 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: I Told Them All about You (Cliff Friend)
Subject: Lyr Add: ALL ABOUT YOU (from Doc Watson)
I was listening to streaming radio today and heard Doc Watson singing this song. (Hey, ain't RealPlayer great? You can repeat a section of a program over and over until you get it transcribed.) Here's how it went:

(He calls it ALL ABOUT YOU and it's designated "traditional" but I think he's mistaken.)

I told the daffodils.
I told the whippoorwills
Just how pretty you smile.
Yes, I told them all about you.
I told each little bird
Every little single word
That you say is worthwhile.
Yes, I told them all about you.
I told the moon and ev'ry little star that shines above
About the way you roll your pretty eyes and how you love.
Each little honeybee
Knows there's gonna be
A honeymoon for two.
Yes, I told them all about you.

[Repeat two more times, with instrumental interludes between repetitions.]

[As sung by Doc Watson on two albums:
Doc Watson & David Grisman, "Doc & Dawg," Acoustic Disc #25, 1997.
Various Artists, "Acoustic Disc: 100% Handmade Music, Vol. 4," Acoustic Disc #32, 1998.]