Lyr Req: Don't Monkey 'Round My Widder (C Davis)

Subject: Lyr Req: Dont you monkey round my widder when i'm
From: oombanjo
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 08:37 AM

Hi any one know where I can find Doc & Chets lyrics for this song. I have found some that were close. But i remember a phrase "I'll haurnt you boy" in the version I'm after,it doesn't appear in any of the versions I have tracked down. cheers Oombanjo

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dont you monkey round my widder when i'm
From: GUEST,999--listen to them do it on Youtube.
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 03:41 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05beIXeAi2s

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dont you monkey round my widder when i'm
From: Joe_F
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 05:57 PM

There is a livelier version on the Unholy Modal Rounders' _Have Moicy_, including such charming stanzas as

My gal's got class and a temper too.
She can make a monkey out of all of you.

And if any you folks try and misbehave,
I'll haunt your asses to an early grave.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dont you monkey round my widder when i'm
From: oombanjo
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 09:22 AM

thanks guys I can get it from that.cheers Oombanjo

Subject: Lyr Add: DON'T MONKEY 'ROUND MY WIDDER (C Davis)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 07:24 PM

Here's my transcription from the YouTube recording, with discographical information from Allmusic.com:


DON'T MONKEY 'ROUND MY WIDDER
Carl Davis

1. My fever's runnin' high an' I'm suff'rin' with a cold,
An' I'll soon be a-walkin' on the streets of gold,
An' I'll ask you, boy,
Not to monkey round my widder when I'm gone.

2. If you monkey round my widder, I'm a-tellin' you the fact:
My big white ghost'll come a-sneakin' back,
An' I'll haint you, boy,
If you monkey round my widder when I'm gone.

3. My honey's told me over and over again:
There'll be no more sparkin' after I check in.
I'll ask you, boy, (oh, yeah?)
Don't you monkey round my widder when I'm gone.

4. If you monkey round my widder, I'm a tellin' you true:
Some dark night I'll scare the hell out o' you.
I'll haint you, boy,
If you monkey round my widder when I'm gone.

5. Oh, her cookin' is good an' her lovin' is fine,
But when I leave this world, she'll still be mine.
Now I'll ask you, boy,
Not to monkey round my widder when I'm gone.

REPEAT 2

6. I'll soon be leavin' this world of sin,
One purty woman with a lot o' you men,
An' I'll tell you, boy,
Don't you monkey round my widder when I'm gone.

REPEAT 2

I'll haint you, boy,
If you monkey round my widder when I'm gone.

[As sung by Chet Atkins and Doc Watson on "Reflections" (1980) and on Chet Atkins' album "The RCA Years, 1947-1981" (1992). "Reflections" has been reissued, combined with the Chet Atkins/Merle Travis album "Atkins-Travis Traveling Show", as 2-LPs-turned-into-1-CD (2008).]