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Thread #1338   Message #4504
Posted By: Murray
12-Apr-97 - 03:00 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Lolly Toodum
Subject: ADD Version: LOLLY TOO DUM
It may be a Canadian song, and was recorded by Ed McCurdy many years ago now. Something like this:

LOLLY TOO DUM

As I went out one morning, to take the pleasant air,
Lolly too dum, too dum, lolly too dum day.
As I went out one morning to take the pleasant air,
I overheard a mother a-scolding her daughter fair,
Lolly too dum, too dum, lolly too dum day.

[Similarly:]

You'd better go wash them dishes, and hush that flatterin' tongue,
I know you want to get married, and that you are too young.

Oh pity my condition, just like you would your own,
For seventeen long years I've been sleeping all alone.

Supposing I were willing, where would you get your man?
O lawks-a-mercy mammy, I'd marry that handsome Sam.

Supposing he should slight you, like you done him before?
Oh lawks-a-mercy mammy, I could marry forty more.

There's doctors and there's lawyers, and folks of high degree,
Some of them will marry, and one will marry me.

There's peddlers and there's tinkers, and them that follow the plough,
Oh lawks-a-mercy mammy, the fit's upon me now.

So now my daughter's married, and well for to do,
Gather round, young fellas, I'm on the market too!


-- There may be another stanza missing.
--On second thought, this sounds more like a mountain song from Kentucky or so.
Murray Shoolbraid.