Lyr Req: Don't Leave Me Daddy

Subject: Lyr Req: Lyrics to 'Don't Leave Me Daddy'?
From: GUEST,Thomas Fiddler
Date: 03 Oct 07 - 09:04 PM

There is a song I heard a snippet of in the 1983 Appalshop documentary, "Strangers & Kin" that goes like this:

Don't leave me daddy
Oh, daddy don't you go
Something better will come along

Does anyone know this song? I could really use to lyrics and the basic chord progression, if possible.

Thanks!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lyrics to 'Don't Leave Me Daddy'?
From: Peace
Date: 03 Oct 07 - 09:14 PM

Thomas, there are about a gazillion songs with those phrases in them. Do you have ANYthing else about it you remember?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Don't Leave Me Daddy
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 10 Nov 07 - 08:18 PM

Here's a description of the video at the Appalshop web site: Strangers and Kin: A History of the Hillbilly Image. I was hoping there'd be some helpful information there, but no luck.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Don't Leave Me Daddy
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 06:35 PM

Just to refresh this, Blind Alfred Reed's version of Miner's Child's Dream, maybe called Fairmont Mine Explosion, has the words

Don't leave me, daddy, please don't go away
Something bad is sure to happen, do not go

I don't suppose that's it?