Lyr Add: Whisky, Johnny! (Robinson)

19 Aug 04 - 08:28 PM (#1251500)
Subject: Lyr Add: WHISKY, JOHNNY! (Robinson version)
From: GUEST,Lighter (w/o cookie)

On November 12, 1939, at Belvedere, Calif., the folklorist Sidney Robertson Cowell recorded this version of "Whisky, Johnny!" from Captain Leighton Robinson, Arthur Brodeur, Alex Barr, and Leighton McKenzie. You can hear them singing it at the Library of Congress's "American Memory" site.

                Oh, whisky here and whiskey there,
                      Whisky, Johnny!
                Oh, whisky here and whisky there,
                      Whisky for me Johnny!

         [similarly:]

                Oh, I'll drink whisky when I can,
                Oh, I'll drink whisky while I can.

                Oh, whisky gave me a broken nose....

                And whisky made me pawn my clothes....

                Oh, if whisky were a river and I were a duck....

                I'd swim around till I got blind drunk....

                Oh, whisky landed me in jail....

                Oh, whisky in an old tin pail....

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Robinson Recordings

1	Away, Rio	thread
2	Sally Brown	thread
3	Hanging Johnny	thread
4	Poor old man	thread
5	Whiskey Johnny	thread
6	Roll the cotton down	thread
7	Goodby, fare you well	thread
8	Rolling home	thread

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21 Mar 11 - 07:20 AM (#3118128)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Whisky, Johnny! (Robinson)
From: shipcmo

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