Lyr Req: Just Got Married / Just Married

Subject: Lyr Req: Just Got Married - Little Benny Cox
From: GUEST,C
Date: 31 May 06 - 01:36 PM

Picked up this CD at the Florida Folk Festival

http://www.floridamemory.com/collections/folklife/folklife_cd.cfm

Trying to decipher the lyrics to the song "Just Got Married" by Little Benny Cox and the Suwannee River Jamboree Boys, 1955

I haven't been able to find anything on the song or the artist, who was apparently 11 years old at the time this recording was made.

It's a really wonderful song, and if you could give it a listen, maybe you could help me figure out what all the kid is saying.

Subject: Lyr Add: JUST GOT MARRIED
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 01:07 AM

If I had to guess, based on the sound of it, I'd say this was a Hank Williams song, but I can't confirm that. My searches have turned up nothing. Anyway, here's my best crack at a transcription:

JUST GOT MARRIED

Well, if I seem a little daffy,
It's because I'm so happy.
Got a whole lot o' joy in my life.
If I'm actin' kinda silly,
Let me tell ya somethin', will ye,
Brother, I been doin' all right.

It may sound funny
'Cause we ain't got no money.
We're livin' in paradise.
A man told us how
We're family now
And we just got married last night.

I don't know how we'll make it but I know we will.
It took all I had to pay the bill.
We'll be doin' all right till the rent comes due.
We'll live on love for a month or two.

...lovin'
...turtle-dovin'
We started I-doin' it right.
She's a ...
And a ...
And we just got married last night.

Well, I talked her daddy
Then I said "Are you ready?"
And my baby didn't have to think twice.
We were down by the river
So we jumped in the flivver
And we went and got married last night.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Just Got Married - Little Benny
From: Peace
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 08:39 PM

Title: Just married.
First Line:
Chorus: If I seem a little daffy, it's because I'm so happy, got a whole lot of joy in my life
Music by: Collins, Tommy.
Words by: Collins, Tommy.
P/P/D: Hollywood : Central Songs Inc., c1953.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1952-1971

from
here.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Just Got Married - Little Benny
From: Peace
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 08:44 PM

That is all I could find to add to this thread.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Just Got Married - Little Benny
From: GUEST,C
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 05:53 PM

Thanks a lot.

You guys are wonderful.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Just Got Married - Little Benny
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 07:51 PM

(Something something) lovin'
And lots of turtle-dovin'
We started I-doin' it right.
She's a ring-tom-deucie (?)And a beautie-toosie (?)
And we just got married last night.

Subject: Lyr Add: JUST MARRIED (Tommy Collins)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 09:05 PM

Aha! Now that I know the correct title of the song, I am able to fill in the gaps with information from Allmusic.com, and by listening to sound samples of Faron Young:

JUST MARRIED
Tommy Collins

Well, if I seem a little daffy,
It's because I'm so happy.
Got a whole lot o' joy in my life.
If I'm actin' kind o' silly,
Let me tell ya somethin', will ye,
Brother, I been doin' all right.

It may sound funny.
I ain't got no money.
I'm livin' in paradise.
A man told us how
We're a fam'ly now
And we just got married last night.

I don't know how we'll make it but I know we will.
It took all I had to pay the bill.
We'll be doin' all right till the rent comes due.
We'll live on love for a month or two.

There's pettin' an' a-lovin'
An' lots o' turtle-dovin'.
We stared I-doin' it right.
She's a rinktum-duty
An' a rooty-tooty
An' we just got married last night.

Well, I talked to her daddy
Then I said, "Are you ready?"
And my baby didn't have to think twice.
We were down by the river
So we jumped in my flivver
And we just got married last night.

[As recorded by Faron Young on "This is Faron Young," Capitol LP T-1096, 1958.]