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Thread #54252 Message #840075
Posted By: Richie
03-Dec-02 - 10:55 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: Darlin' Corey / Little Maggie
Subject: Lyr Add: DARLING CORY
Lyr. Add: DARLING CORY
Wake up, wake up, darlin' Cory
What makes you sleep so sound
When the revenuers are coming
Goin' to tear your stillhouse down
Go away, go away, darling Cory,
Stop hangin' around my bed.
Bad liquor destroyed my body
Pretty women's gone to my head.
Don't you hear those bluebirds a-singin',
Don't you hear their mournful sound?
They are preachin' Cory's funeral
In some lonesome graveyard ground.
The last time I saw darlin' Cory,
She was sittin' on the bank of the sea,
With a jug of liquor in her arm,
And a fourty-five across her knee.
Notes: Recorded by Artus Moser from the singing of Pleaz Mobley of Manchester, Ky., at Renfro Valley, 1946, Library of Congress record LP14. The first verse is the "Wake up, wake up" common in the "Drowsey Sleeper/Silver Dagger/Katie Dear" songs. The third verse is different than others posted.