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TA-RA-RARA-BOOM-DE-AY Sung by: Mr. and Mrs. F.E. Ash Recorded in Mountain View, AR 7/26/63 Click here to listen to the original recording My best girl has gone away; Hope to the land she's gone to stay, Ta-ra-rara-boom-de-ay. I got a girl in five cent town; She got on the merry-go-round. The merry-go-round, it went so slow, Throwed my girl out in the snow. It skinned her knee and her elbow; It skinned her knee and her elbow. Throwed my gal out in the snow, And skinned her knee and her elbow. Chorus: Ta-ra-rara-boom-de-ay, Ta-ra-rara-boom-de-ay, Ta-ra-rara-boom-de-ay, Rippity tarrity boom-de-ay. I had a cow that give such milk, I dress her in the finest silk. Milk her forty times a day, And shout for the boys to get out of my way. (Chorus, with last line this time being "Ta-ra-rara-boom-de-ay.") Had an old rooster; He wouldn't say his prayers. Kept singing a little tune To the hens upstairs. Ta-ra-rara-boom-de-ay, Ta-ra-rara-boom-de-ay. Had an old cow And I bought her last June. I caught her in the cornfield A-winking at the moon. Ta-ra-rara-boom-de-ay, Ribbity tarrity boom-de-ay. |
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