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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