The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #33707   Message #3925325
Posted By: Jim Dixon
17-May-18 - 06:49 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Death of Willie
Subject: Lyr Add: CROSS-EYED GAL ON THE HILL (Bill Boyd)
This seems to belong to the same genre. It has the same verse structure and a few lines in common with the above songs.
This is a fast-tempo western swing tune:


CROSS-EYED GAL ON THE HILL
As recorded by Bill Boyd and His Cowboy Ramblers, 1939.

1. Oh, she's done and gone away,
Kicked the bucket yesterday,
My cross-eyed gal that lives upon the hill.
Oh, she took strychnine and died.
And I hope she's satisfied.
'Cause she did the whole darn thing against my will.

CHORUS: She's my darlin'; she's my daisy.
She's knock-knee'd and she's crazy,
My cross-eyed gal who lives upon the hill;
And they say her teeth are false
Just from drinkin' Epsom salts,
'Cause she did the whole darn thing against my will.

2. She said goodbye to me
As she sat upon my knee.
She said she'd meet me on that golden shore.
I took it as a joke,
Didn't think that she would croak,
'Cause she never died so suddenly before. CHORUS

3. Now that she's gone to rest,
I'll fulfill her last request
And plant a bunch of onions on her grave,
So when I'm passin' by,
I can pucker up an' cry,
'Cause the doggone things just simply make me rave. CHORUS