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Thread #66589   Message #232532
Posted By: Jim Krause
23-May-00 - 01:26 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Raleigh and Spencer
Subject: ADD Version: Raleigh and Spencer
Here's the way the Euphoria Stringband did it on their CD Way Out West in Kansas

CHORUS
Oh Raleigh and Spencer done gone dry
There ain't no more whiskey in town
There ain't no more whiskey in town

I can eat more fat meat than you can cook in a week
And I'll tell more doggone lies
Yes, I'll tell them doggone lies

I can eat more chicken than a pretty girl can fry
And I'll tell them doggone lies
I'll tell them doggone lies

Well what you gonna do when your money is all gone
I'll hang my head down and cry
Yes, I'll hang my head down and cry

I'll pawn my shoes for a bottle of booze
I'll drink it, I'll lay down and die
I'll drink it, I'll lay down and die.

You can stomp down the flowers that bloom on my grave
They'll rise and bloom once again
They'll rise and bloom once again

This version is a combination of versions recorded by Tommy Jarrell, Brad Leftwich, and a version I heard live at the Augusta Heritage Foundation, Davis & Elkins College, Elkins WV. performed by Steffen Senders, Carol Elizabeth Jones, Raef Steffeninni, and a bass player whose name I have forgotten.