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Thread #56672   Message #2955605
Posted By: autoharpbob
31-Jul-10 - 06:28 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Lulu Walls
Subject: Lyr Add: LULU WALLS (Carter Family)
AP tended to claim copyright on just about everything the Carter Family recorded, whether he wrote it or not. This is the version the Carter's recorded in 1929:

LULU WALLS
Carter Family - Words and music by AP Carter, 2nd Camden Sessions, Feb 1929

1. One ev'ning getting dark, WE FIRST MET AT the park.
A SITTIN AT the fountain all alone.
I lifted up my hat and then began to chat.
SHE SAID SHE'D ALLOW TO SEE HER AT her home.

CHORUS: Such a star I'D never seen. She's as pretty as a queen.
She's as perfect as an angel from above.
If she'd only be my wife, I'd live happy all MY life,
With that aggRAvating beauty, LulU WallS.

2. If she WASonly mine, I WOULD build a house so fine,
AND around it, so many fences tall.
It would make me jealous-free that no one else but me
Could gaze upon that beauty, LulU WallS.

2. One ev'ning getting late, I met her at the gate.
I asked her if she'd wed me in the fall;
SHE ONLY TURNED AWAY AND NOTHING SHE WOULD SAY,
That aggRAvating beauty, LulU WallS.