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Thread #49270   Message #758829
Posted By: John Minear
02-Aug-02 - 01:47 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Dinah / Save Dinah for the Night
Subject: Lyr Add: DINAH (from Bob Heyer)
I missed a few page breaks in Dwight's version, between the second and third verses and the fourth and fifth ones. Here's another version of "Dinah" by Bob Heyer, from his recording ROOT THAT MOUNTAIN DOWN. I think that Bob is also from West Virginia.

Diner, Oh,Dinah, if you were only mine,
Set you in a corner and kiss you all the time,
Kiss you all the time, kiss you all the time.

Poppa had an old grey horse, 'is name was Charlie Brown,
Every tooth in that horse's head was sixteen inches round.
Sixteen inches round, sixteen inches round.

Rainin' and a hailin', as hard as it can pour,
Can I hitch my old grey horse to your stable door,
To your stable door, to your stable door?

You can ride the old grey horse, I will ride the roan,
You can talk to your true love, do let mine alone.
Do let mine alone, do let mine alone.

Rainin' and a hailin', fallin' from the sky,
My true love goes back on me, I will surely die,
I will surely die, I will surely die.

My true love went back on me, went back on me, you know.
My true love went back on me, durn her, let her go.
Durn her, let her go, durn her, let her go.

Diner, Oh Dinah, if you were only mine,
Set you in a corner, kiss you all the time.
Kiss you all the time, kiss you all the time.