Hello everybody:

I learned this song from Johnny Collins' album, "Free & Easy" on Traditional Sound Recording Records, TSR 041, 1982.

I transcribed this a long time ago and it's entirely possible that I got some things wrong. My poor old turntable is on the fritz so I can't listen to the record at the moment. I thought I had heard the term "grass" used as a slang phrase for money but maybe "brass" is the correct word. Perhaps one of our English Mudcatters could tell us what is right.

"Creeping up so sly" is definately the correct phrase because sly then rhymes with dry. You know, I'll just have to listen to the recording again. I do apologize for posting the song with errors - I should have at least compared my lyrics with the ones in the database.

Radriano