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Thread #20079 Message #2178102
Posted By: Midchuck
24-Oct-07 - 10:08 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: May I sleep In your barn tonight Mist
Joe, posting a CLEAN version of "Down in the Lehigh Valley" is a terrible blow to American folklore.
I won't try to reproduce the whole thing...but the proper first two verses are:
Let me sit down a minute, as stone got in my shoe.
Don't you commence your cursin', I ain't done nothin' to you.
Once I was young and handsome, had plenty o' cash and clothes.
That was before I got to tipplin', and the gin got in my nose.
It was down in the Lehigh Valley, in the spring of '92,
I was pimpin' in a whorehouse, and a mighty fine one too.....
and the final stanza is:
...and I'll hunt the runt that stole my c***,
if it takes 'till judgment day.
Peter