Hi,

Here's one version titled, Fly Around My Pretty Little Pink, sung by Manuel Dewey about c.1961. It's from "Ark" Records (45-EP229 CP 8570) of Cincinnati, Ohio sung by a Renfro Valley Barn Dance singer and banjo player nicknamed Old Joe Clark. Ark Records was founded in Cincinnati in the early '60s by Roy Shepard and Bob Lanham, both of whom enjoyed a number of releases on the imprint.

John Lair hired Manuel Dewey in 1942 at the Renfro Valley Barn Dance and named him "Old Joe Clark" after a Clay County, KY man of ill-repute who the song was supposedly titled after. Recorded on stage live at Renfro Valley, KY-- no date but c. 1961. CP 8570 had three songs: Fly Around My Pretty Little Pink/Pig Home In The Pen/Mountain Dew. This is the first song.

As a side note, I have two of my paintings hanging in the Kentucky Music Hall-of-Fame museum there in Renfro Valley.

Fly Around My Pretty Little Pink- sung by Manuel Dewey (known as Old Joe Clark) about 1961.

[Chorus] Fly around my pretty little pink,
Fly around my daisy,
Fly around my pretty little pink,
You almost drive me crazy.

The higher up the cherry tree,
Riper grows the berries,
Sooner you court the pretty little girls,
The sooner you will marry. [chorus]

Never marry a girl you know[1]
They're all too much money,
Just get you one with two straight eyes
To kiss and call you honey. [chorus]

1. Clark stumbles on the word here and runs them into the next line.

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Richie