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Thread #54913 Message #852338
Posted By: Richie
22-Dec-02 - 07:11 PM
Thread Name: Origins: My Wife Died on a Saturday Night/Plank Rd
Subject: Lyr Add: WAY DOWN THE OLD PLANK ROAD
Here's a song collected by African-American Thomas Talley, from A Fiddler's Companion:
WAY DOWN THE OLD PLANK ROAD. AKA and see "Old Plank Road." Old-Time, Song. African-American collector Thomas Talley (born c. 1870) printed a tune called "Aunt Dinah Drunk" in his 1922 work Negro Folk Rhymes, which includes a chorus which shows up in the Macon song "Way Down the Old Plank Road."
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Yes, I won't git drunk an' kicky up a chunk.
I won't git drunk an' kicky up a chunk.
I won't git drunk an' kicky up a chunk,
'Way down on de ole Plank Road.
Oh shoo my Love! My turkle dove.
Oh shoo my Love! My turkle dove.
Oh shoo my Love! My turkle dove,
'Way down on de ole Plank Road.
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County 521, "Uncle Dave Macon: Original Recordings, 1925-1935." Vocalion 15321 (78 RPM), Uncle Dave Macon (1926).
-Richie