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Thread #18708   Message #624327
Posted By: GUEST,ddrane@austin.rr.com
09-Jan-02 - 05:07 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Woody Knows Nothing / Saturday Night
Subject: Lyr Add: SATURDAY NIGHT (from Burl Ives)
Burl Ives sang a song that he called "Saturday Night" that surely must be derived from "Woody Knows Nothing." It's on his "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" CD:

SATURDAY NIGHT

Saturday night and Sunday too
True love on my mind
But Monday morning's gettin' soon
The white man's got me gwine

Blue jay pulled a four-horse plow
Sparrow, why can't you?
'Cause my legs is little an' long
And they might get broke in two

Red bird's sittin' on a sycamore limb
Singin' out his soul
A big black snake crawled up that tree
And swallowed that poor boy whole

Wild geese flyin' through the air
Through the sky of blue
They're now a-floating where the south wind blows
So why not me and you?