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Thread #91633   Message #3979055
Posted By: Jim Dixon
25-Feb-19 - 07:00 PM
Thread Name: Origins: 'Cindy Cindy' - how old is it?
Subject: Lyr Add: CINDY (Vernon Dalhart)
You can hear this at the Internet Archive:

CINDY
As recorded by Vernon Dalhart, 1927.

1. Where'd you get your whiskey? Oh, where'd you get your dram?
Where'd you get your whiskey? Way down in Alabam'.

CHORUS: Get along home, home, Cindy.
Get along home, home, home.
Get along home, home, Cindy.
I'm gonna leave you now.

2. When she saw me a-comin', she met me at the door,
Shoes and stockin's in her hand and feet all over the floor.

3. I'm a-goin' to the mountains to plant a patch of cane
To make me some molasses to sweeten little Liza Jane.

4. When she saw me a-comin', she wrung her hands and cried,
And when I went to leave her, she fainted away and died.

5. Granny had a muley cow that chewed up all the corn.
Took a jaybird forty years to fly from horn to horn.

6. If I had a cow that give such milk, I'd feed her in the choicest hay,
Dress her in the finest silk, milk her forty times a day.