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Thread #31041   Message #410926
Posted By: Stewie
04-Mar-01 - 08:44 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: songs by Uncle Dave Macon
Subject: Lyr Add: SHE'S GOT THE MONEY TOO (Lockwood/Wild)
SHE'S GOT THE MONEY TOO
(C.T. Lockwood/J. Wild)

I am just as fond of beauty as anyone can be
The rosy cheeks and pearly teeth I dearly love to see
I know one that has them except me and you
Oh she is the sweetest girlie, and she's got the money too

Chorus:
Now won't I love my honey
(Lord, yes)
And won't I spend her money
(It is a sin (?))
I am as happy as a flower
That sips the falling dew
For I know a little girlie
And she's got the money too

She takes me out a-riding whenever I come down
She owns the finest Cadillac and Buick in the town
She tells me that she loves me, oh listen wouldn't you
Oh she is the sweetest girlie, and she's got the money too

Chorus

I asked her the question, if she would be my bride
She said, You are the sweetest boy that ever lived or died
I told her that I meant it, she said she did too
Oh she is the sweetest girlie, and she's got the money too

Chorus

Source: transcription of reissue on Uncle Dave Macon 'Travelin' Down the Road' County CCSCD-115. Recorded on 24 January 1938.
PS.

Uncle Dave garnered his material from a variety of sources. This is a vaudeville song from his youth (it comes from 1869). Charles Wolfe in his notes to the above CD attributes the words to C.T. Lockwood and the music to Johnny Wild. The original was 'And he's got the money too'. The Levy collection attributes both words and music to Lockwood. The direct link to the song at Levy wouldn't work, so you need to put 'And he's got the money too' in the search box at the Levy site: http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/index.html

The American memory collection attributes it to Lockwood/Wild:

American memory

Whatever, as well as changing the sex of the protagonist, Macon and/or the folk process have expanded on the original considerably.

There's a version in the Hunter collection from Mrs Virginia Morris of Springfield, Missouri.

Hunter collection