ADD: Old Riley / Here Rattler Here

Subject: RE: Here Rattler Here
From: Gene
Date: 29 Jul 97 - 11:41 AM

Hi Bob..you are right, thanks!

Subject: RE: Here Rattler Here
From: Bob
Date: 29 Jul 97 - 08:30 AM

Gene, I think that first line ended, "blind as he could be." Fits better with the next line.

Subject: Lyr Add: OLD RATTLER (Grandpa Jones)
From: Gene
Date: 29 Jul 97 - 04:23 AM

Hi Karen, I think this is the one you're looking for! Enjoy!

OLD RATTLER
As recorded by Grandpa Jones

[G] Old Rattler was a good old dog, as fine as he could [D] be
Ev'ry night 'bout suppertime, I believe that dog could [G] see.

REFRAIN: [G] Here, Rattler, Here! Here! – Here, Rattler! [D] Here!
Call old Rattler from the barn: Here, Rattler! [G] Here!

Old Rattler treed the other night and I thought he'd treed a 'coon
When I come to find out he was barkin' at the moon. REFRAIN

Well, grandma had a yeller hen. We set her as you know
We set her on three buzzard eggs and hatched out one old crow. REFRAIN

Grandpa had a muley cow. She was muley when she's born
It took a jaybird forty year to fly from horn to horn. REFRAIN

Now if I had a needle and thread as fine as I could sew
I'd sew my sweetheart to my back and down the road I'd go. REFRAIN

Old Rattler was a smart old dog, even though he was blind
He wouldn't hurt one single thing though he was very fine. REFRAIN

One night I saw a big fat 'coon climb up in a tree
I called old Rattler right away to get him down for me. REFRAIN

But Rattler wouldn't do it because he liked that 'coon
I saw them walkin' paw in paw later by the light of the moon. REFRAIN

Now old Rattler's dead and gone, like all good dogs do
You better not act a dog yourself, or you'll be goin' there too. REFRAIN

Subject: RE: Here Rattler Here
From: Barry Finn
Date: 28 Jul 97 - 10:59 PM

I have no idea how GP Jones did this, but I have a few versions of it as a prison work song used for flatweeding. Let me know if this would be close; Well ole Rattler here's a marrow bone. Here Rattler Here You can eat it, you can leave it alone Here Rattler Here

I don't want no marrow bone Here Rattler Here I want that man that's long gone Here Rattler Here Rattler, beside being the dog to beat all, was the name, traditionally given to the lead dog on each prison farm. I'll check back. Barry

Subject: Here Rattler Here
From: Karen Kenna
Date: 28 Jul 97 - 05:12 PM

Does anyone have the words to "Here Rattler Here" by Grandpa Jones? I would appreciate any help.