req: old obscure song - Shoot Him High

Subject: old obscure song
From: GUEST,yarnspinner
Date: 09 Jul 00 - 12:12 AM

Howdy, all. I'm looking for lyrics, or any reference, actually, to an old song heard once, long ago, on a backwoods hillbilly radio station. The chorus went something like: "Shoot 'im high, Pa, we need his britches. Shoot 'im high, Pa we need his shoes. "Shoot 'im high, Pa, we need his britches. He's a revenuer, and he's bound to lose. Anybody remember it?

Subject: RE: old obscure song
From:
Date: 09 Jul 00 - 06:32 AM

I don't remember it myself. But I did some checking. Apparently it is a recording by Rex Allen (Not Junior) on RCA. Hope that helps.

Subject: RE: old obscure song
From:
Date: 09 Jul 00 - 06:38 AM

Oh, and the title was Shoot Him High. I can't seem to locate the lyrics online, so, hopefully you can check an old records store for it.

Subject: RE: old obscure song
From: kendall
Date: 09 Jul 00 - 08:03 AM

interesting name you chose, I used that name myself when I first joined this crew. Wanna tell us who you are?

Subject: RE: old obscure song
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Jul 00 - 01:11 PM

I'll ask my wife...she knows THIS one

"Slap her down agin, Paw, slap her down agin
Make her tell us more, Paw..tell us where she's been.
We don't want our neighbors talkin' 'bout our kin
So slap her down agin, Paw, slap her down agin."

Subject: RE: old obscure song
From: p.j.
Date: 09 Jul 00 - 01:42 PM

Ah, the lovely family values immortalized in those gentle hillbilly folksongs...

Subject: RE: old obscure song
From: kendall
Date: 09 Jul 00 - 01:45 PM

what was that verse about standing by the road with shotguns?

Subject: RE: old obscure song
From: GUEST,Ggi
Date: 15 Aug 14 - 04:05 AM

We had it on a 78. Daddy probably still does have it, somewhere. Granddad managed a radio station way back when, that folded.

Subject: RE: req: old obscure song - Shoot Him High
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Aug 14 - 04:23 AM

There's a recording of it by Rosalie Allen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN_KtOH2mm4

Anybody have time to transcribe it?

-Joe-