On my second LP for the Patons at Folk Legacy --- called ON THE WILDERNESS ROAD (still available as a custom cassette from them) I included a version of this song based on the one done by Chubby Parker who was a regular on the WLS Barn Dance radio show out of Chicago. I left out the racist verses and put in a couple from "Butternut Hill". Mine was called "Bibble-Ala-Doo". Scott Alarik has been singing it in recent shows---complete with some of my old jokes.

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Come and listen to my song,
It's awful pretty and it won't take long,
I sung it all the way from here to Hong Kong,
Come-a-bibble-ala-doo-shi-do ree.

I'm gonna buy me an old gray hoss,
The Alleghenies I will cross,
Gonna find the true love that I lost,
Come-a-bibble...

CHORUS)
Shoo-ri, shoo-ri, shoo-ri roo,
Sugar racka, sugar racka, shoo-ri-roo,
When I saw my little bobolink,
Come-a-bibble-ala-doo-shi do-ree.

I was down on a South Sea isle,
Folks all greet you with a smile,
I wrote back home, well, I think I'll stay a while,
Come-a-bibble...

Dad went out in a Ford machine,
He dropped a match in the gasoline,
He went so high that he's never been seen,
Come-a-bibble...

Man came from monkey Darwin said,
Where women came from I never have read,
But I know where some are goin' when they're dead,
Come-a-bibble...

Here I sit on Buttermilk Hill,
Here I sit and cry my fill,
Every tear would turn a mill,
Come-a-bibble...

My true love has gone to France,
There her fortune to advance,
When she gets home we're gonna have a little dance,
Come-a-bibble-ala-doo-shi-do-ree.

(Art Thieme)