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Thread #78973 Message #3416927
Posted By: Jim Dixon
09-Oct-12 - 10:26 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: 'Uncle Bud' Obscene Southern US Song
Subject: Lyr Add: UNCLE BUD (Gid Tanner's Skillet Lickers)
Here's my transcription from the recording that I heard on Spotify:
UNCLE BUD
As sung by Gid Tanner's Skillet Lickers on "The Very Best Of (1926-1934)" (2012)
Originally recorded on Columbia 15134D, Nov. 2, 1926.
I got a gal and she's a chew, Uncle Bud.
I got a gal and she's a chew, Uncle Bud.
I got a gal and she's a chew.
She don't wear no—yes, she do, Uncle Bud.
Where shall the wedding supper be, Uncle Bud?
Where shall the wedding supper be, Uncle Bud?
Where shall the wedding supper be?
Way down yonder in a holler tree, Uncle Bud.
Uncle Bud gets married on Sunday morn, Uncle Bud.
Uncle Bud gets married on Sunday morn, Uncle Bud.
Uncle Bud gets married on Sunday morn.
He's a-gonna bring back a gallon o' corn, Uncle Bud.
I know a man, they call him Bud, Uncle Bud.
I know a man, they call him Bud, Uncle Bud.
I know a man, they call him Bud.
He carried his whiskey in his jug, Uncle Bud.
Big cat, little cat playin' in the sand, Uncle Bud.
Big cat, little cat playin' in the sand, Uncle Bud.
Big cat, little cat playin' in the sand.
Little cat yell like a nat'ral man, Uncle Bud.
Where shall the wedding supper be, Uncle Bud?
Where shall the wedding supper be?
Way down yonder in a holler tree, Uncle Bud.