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Thread #18908   Message #193491
Posted By: Abby Sale
11-Mar-00 - 02:19 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: I Just Don't Want to Be Rich (Sam Hinton)
Subject: Lyr Add: I JUST DON'T WANT TO BE RICH (Hinton)
Just to keep us from getting too complacent (he likes to do that)  on Sam Hinton - The Library Of Congress Session, March 25, 1947, Sam sings:
 
 
I Just Don't Want to be Rich

You wonder why I'm a hobo
And why I sleep in the ditch
It ain't because I'm lazy, no
I just don't wanna be rich.
    Now I could eat from dishes
    It's just a matter of choice
    But when I eat from an old tin can
    There ain't no dishes to wash.
Now, I could be a banker
If ever I wanted to be
But the very thought of an iron cage
Is too suggestive for me.
    Now, I could be a broker
    Without the slightest excuse
    But look at nineteen twenty-nine
    And tell me what's the use?
 
A doodle dee doo, dee doo, de doodle dee dee,
Deedle dee dee, dee dee
A deedle dee dee, dee dee, dee deedle dee dee,
A-deedle dee dee, dee dee
 
Now I could ride the Pullman
But there it is again
The plush they put on the Pullman's seats
Tickles my sensative skin.
    Now, I could be a conductor
    And never have a wreck
    But any kind of a railroad man
    To me is a pain in the neck.
Now, I could be a doctor
My duty I never would shirk
But if I doctored a trigger cop
He never would go back to work
    You wonder why I'm a hobo
    And why I sleep in the ditch
    It ain't because I'm lazy, no
    I just don't wanna be rich.
 
A deedle dee dee, dee dee, dee deedle dee dee,
A-deedle dee dee, dee dee
A deedle dee dee, dee dee, dee deedle dee dee,
A-deedle dee dee, dee dee

(Some dees & deedles may vary)

Recorded by Sam Hinton on Sam Hinton - The Library Of Congress Session, March 25, 1947; on Bear Family Records CD (1999).  Learned  from a phonograph record at his uncle Bubba's in Oklahoma about 1930. The singer may have been Haywire Mac McClintock.
 

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