Ooh boy, that was a funone. Here's my transcription.
(Side note -- I'd completely forgotten I made this thread. Thanks for reviving an oldie. I don't remember being so into exact dialectical transcriptions back then, but obviously the evidence indicates otherwise.)
DARBY'S RAM (as performed on the video "darby ram" posted May 2, 2012 on YouTube by user squirrelbanjo)
Well, Darby had an old gray ram I heard my pappy say The finest ram you ever saw That ever fed on hay
Well, he had four feet to walk upon And he had four feet to stand But every foot the big ram had Took up an acre of land
CHORUS Oh! They ain't gonna make no more Why didn't they make no more? Why didn't they make no more Before they cut him down?
Grandpa had a muley cow Muley she was born It took a jaybird forty years To fly from horn to horn
CHORUS
Well, the butcher had to kill that ram Drownded in the blood And the little boy that helped him Got washed away in the flood
CHORUS
Well, the old ram had a big ole horn It reached up to the moon Why, a man walked up in January And he ain't came back til June
CHORUS
Well, the old ram had the finest wool It reached up to the sky Why, buzzards built a nest in it Cause I hear their young'uns cry