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Thread #10783 Message #4146176
Posted By: GUEST,talithamac
03-Jul-22 - 04:48 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Way Down in Shawneetown (Dillon Bustin)
Subject: RE: Origin: Way Down in Shawneetown (Dillon Bustin)
When I recorded this in 1986, with Dillon Bustin singing on the chorus, he gave me words to a couple of extra verses. This is my version:
Vs 1 Some row up but we float down
Way down the Ohio to Shawneetown
Cho And it’s hard on the beech oar
It moves too slow
Way down to Shawneetown
On the Ohio
Vs 2 Now the current’s got her and we’ll take up the slack
We’ll float her down to Shawneetown and bushwack her back
Vs 3 The whiskey’s in the jug, boys, the wheat is in the sack
We’ll trade ‘em down in Shawneetown and bring the rock salt back
Vs 4 Got a wife in Louisville, one in New Orleans
When I get to Shawneetown gonna see my Indian queen
Vs 5 Them hoop-pole boys talk loud and long
Round as a barrel and they’re twice as strong
Vs 6 I like to fight, I can take my knocks
But not like last Saturday night at the Cave-in-Rock
Vs 7 The water’s mighty warm, boys, the air is cold and dank
And the cursed fog it gets so thick you cannot see the bank
Rpt Vs 1