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THEY PUT ME ON THE CALABOOSE Sung by: W.P. Detherow Recorded in Batesville, AR, 7/15/52 Click here to listen to the original recording And I didn't go to stay. They put me in a calaboose, And I couldn't get away, o-hoo. Yell: O-hoo . . . (Yell-yodel roughly follows the melody line of the verse.) I went down to Little Rock; I didn't go to stay. They put me in a calaboose, And I couldn't get away, o-hoo. (Yell) I wish I had a fifteen cents; I wish I had a dime. I wish I had a pretty yellow gal To kiss and call her mine, o-hoo. (Yell) Oh, where you going, my good old souls? Your hair's a-getting gray. I'll follow you ten thousand miles To hear that banjo play, o-hoo. (Yell) Sixteen horses in the field, Nine of them are mine. The only thing that troubles me now Is that pretty yellow gal of mine, o-hoo. (Yell) Hard road to travel, boys, Hard road to stay. Hard road to travel, boys, And trouble on my way, o-hoo. (Yell) |
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