Lyr Add: Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Gal

Subject: Lyr Add: FLY AROUND MY BLUE-EYED GAL
From: harpgirl
Date: 03 Oct 04 - 09:59 PM

FLY AROUND MY BLUE-EYED GAL

version by Ola Belle Reed

Fly around my blue-eyed gal
Fly around my daisy
Fly around my blue-eyed gal
You almost drove me crazy.

Once I had a fortune
I laid it in a trunk
Lost it all all gambling
One night when I got drunk.

Wished I was in the West country
Sittin' in a big armchair
One arm 'round my whiskey barrel
The other 'round my dear.

If I had a scolding wife
Tell you what I'd do
Trade her off for a Barlow knife
Paddle my own canoe.

It's every day and Sunday too
It seems so dark and hazy
I'm thinking about my blue-eyed gal
She's done run me crazy.

If I had no horse at all
I'd be found a' crawlin'
Up and down this rocky road
A' looking for my dariing.

Went up on the mountain
To give my horn a blow
Thought I heard somebody say
Yonder comes my beau




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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Fly Around my blue eyed gal
From: Janie
Date: 03 Oct 04 - 10:05 PM

I learned it as "Blue-eyed Miss" instead of gal. It is in the DT as "Blue Eyed Girl" but the line is sung "gal" as in your version.

I like the way the Bing Brothers do it.

Janie

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Fly Around my blue eyed gal
From: Amos
Date: 03 Oct 04 - 10:15 PM

It is closely related to "Fly around my pretty little miss, fly around my darlin'...." and several others of similar parts.

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