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Thread #49846 Message #3622133
Posted By: Joe Offer
25-Apr-14 - 12:30 AM
Thread Name: DT Attribution & Minor Corrections PermaThread
Subject: RE: DT Attribution & Minor Corrections PermaThread
"Dooley," recorded by the Dillards, is unattributed, has mondegreens, and appears twice in the Digital Tradition: filename[ DOOLEY filename[ OLDOOLWY
This thread has the whole story, but there are corrected lyrics from Stewie:
DOOLEY (Rodney Dillard/Mitch Jayne)
Now Dooley was a good old man, he lived below the mill Dooley had two daughters and a forty-gallon still One girl watched the boiler, the other watched the spout Mama corked the bottles when ol' Dooley fetched them out
CHORUS Dooley, slippin' up the holler Dooley, tryin' to make a dollar Dooley, gimme a swaller And I'll pay you back some day
Now Dooley was a trader when into town he'd come Sugar by the bushel and molasses by the drum The revenuers came for him, slippin' through the woods Dooley kept behind them all and never lost his goods
CHORUS
Now I remember very well the day old Dooley died The women folk looked sorry and the men stood around and cried Now Dooley's on the mountain, he lies there all alone They put a jug beside him and a barrel for a stone
CHORUS [last line repeated]
The lyrics above are from the original Dillards recording of the song. Later recordings switched the couplets in the second verse:
The revenuers came for him, slippin' through the woods Dooley kept behind them all and never lost his goods Now Dooley was a trader when into town he'd come Sugar by the bushel and molasses by the drum (as performed by the Dillards on the Andy Griffith Show)