Lyr Req: Do Round My Lindy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Do Round My Lindy
From: Stewie
Date: 18 Dec 03 - 04:05 AM

Meade notes that there is a related text, 'Dat's Me and Marthy Jane', found in 19th century songsters with the chorus:

Then far (sic) you well Melinda, far (sic) you well, my Jane
Fare you well my Susie dear, I won't see you again

Grandpa Jones recorded 'Melinda' in 1950 (King 912). Fiddlin' John's was the only old-time recording of 'Do Round My Lindy' - recorded ca December 1925 in NYC and issued in March 1926 as OK 45032.
[Info from Meade, Spottswood and Meade 'Country Music Sources']

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Do Round My Lindy
From: GUEST,Andrew Cadie
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 07:37 AM

Thanks guys - you wouldn't believe how long I'd been searching!

Subject: Lyr Add: DO ROUND MY LINDY (Fiddlin' John Carson)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 06 Dec 03 - 06:01 PM

Here's my transcription from the recording at Honking Duck:

DO ROUND MY LINDY
(As recorded by Fiddlin' John Carson, 1926)

CHORUS: Do round, my Lindy. Do round, my Jane,
For I'm a-going away with a pretty little girl but I'm coming back again.

My Lindy is handsome. My Lindy, she's stout.
But she broke my new suspenders and she set down on my hat. CHORUS TWICE

I wish I was an alligator, that when I went to swim,
I'd open my mouth as wide as I could and I'd scoop my Lindy in. CHORUS 3 TIMES

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Do Round My Lindy
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 05 Dec 03 - 04:06 PM

You can hear a recording of the song made by Fiddlin' John Carson in the 1920s at Honking Duck:

Do Round My Lindy

It's also on Bruce Mosky's instructional video. http://brucemolsky.com/ordering.htm

Subject: Lyr Req: Do Round My Lindy
From: GUEST,Andrew Cadie
Date: 05 Dec 03 - 02:04 PM

Bruce Molsky started to teach me an Old-Time American song called Do-round-my Lindy in a short lesson last year. I only got the first verse off him and can't find the rest. Does anyone have the words? Be much appreciated...

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