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Thread #141095   Message #3245233
Posted By: Joe Offer
26-Oct-11 - 04:26 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: Moving Day (Sterling/Von Tilzer)
Subject: ADD Version: Moving Day (Sterling/Von Tilzer)
Here's the Charlie Poole version, transcribed by Kinney Rorrer:

IT'S MOVIN' DAY
(composed by Andrew Sterling and Harry von Tilzer in 1906, it was "Dedicated to the Landlords of America.")

Landlord said this morning to me,
"Give me your key, this lot ain't free;
I can't get no rent out of you,
Pack up your bags and skiddoo, you."
"I've been waiting till my Bill comes home,
He's my honey from the honeycomb,
He'll have money for he told me so this morning."

from Rambling Blues: The Life & Songs of Charlie Poole, by Kinney Rorrer, 1982 (page 93).