Lyr Req: Rink-a-ma-dink-a-doody

Subject: Rink-a-ma-dink-a-doody
From: Ruthie
Date: 01 Dec 99 - 08:12 PM

Hi all! I'm very new, just surfed in and wondered if anyone might be able to help me out:

My Uncle just taught me a song but couldn't remember the last verse. He thinks its called rink-a...oh look at the title :-) It has a man's and womens part, and he thought Doc Watson sang it with someone...It starts out:

"(Man) Oh...Where are you going my pretty little miss where are you going my daisy?

(Woman)Well, if I don't find a young man soon, I think I'm goin' crazy... A-Rink a ma dink a diddle I do, a rink a ma dink a doody"

I'd also be interested in finding a sound file on it too. Thanks all, so

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rink-a-ma-dink-a-doody
From:
Date: 02 Dec 99 - 05:55 AM

You will find the song on the album "Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson Live at Folk City" (Smithsonian Folkways SP-40005). It is also sung by the Stoneman Family.

I will try to dig out my tape and see what the last verse sounds like.

Murray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rink-a-ma-dink-a-doody
From: Stewie
Date: 02 Dec 99 - 07:19 AM

I haven't heard the Watson version, but in old-timey and bluegrass circles the song is known as 'Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss'. Reissues on CD include County's great Skillet Licker CD and Frank Blevins and His Tar Heel Rattlers on volume 1 of Yazoo's 'Times Ain't Like They Used to Be'. It was an oldtimey standard that was absorbed into bluegrass. As I recall, the New Lost City Ramblers also did a version.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rink-a-ma-dink-a-doody
From: Ruthie
Date: 02 Dec 99 - 05:28 PM

Wow Stewie & Murray, you are great! I'll run a search of various big music sites, but if you've any particular favorites or smaller less known ones, please direct me :-) Thanks Ruthie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rink-a-ma-dink-a-doody
From: Stewie
Date: 02 Dec 99 - 06:37 PM

Ruthie, you would be best trying to track down the album that Murray has indicated. It seems you are looking for a specific set of words and an interchange between a man and a woman. The oldtimey musicians used it predominantly as a dance tune and, consequently, the verses vary widely from one recording to another, apart from the 'Fly away my pretty little miss/Fly away my daisy etc' refrain. But don't let that stop you investigating the music of the Skillet Lickers - it's lovely, lovely stuff.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rink-a-ma-dink-a-doody
From:
Date: 02 Dec 99 - 11:29 PM

If you have trouble finding it, you can try the Smithsonian website http://www.si.edu/folkways/start.htm.

Murray