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ROLL THE TATER Sung by: Benson and Fleecy Fox Recorded in Mountain Home, AR 6/15/63 Click here to listen to the original recording Don’t you see this nice young man? Don’t you think he’s clever? Don’t you think that he and I Would make a match forever? Yes, I see this nice young man. Yes, I think he’s clever. Yes, I think that he and I Would make a match forever. Roll, roll, rolly, roll. Rolly, roll the tater. Rolly roll, rolly roll, I wish I had a tater. (Comment by Fleecy Fox: “And then, when you started singing ‘roll the tater,’ they roll around, the man goes around the men and the woman around the women, and at the other end they join hands and go back between, and when you finish singing, ‘roll the tater,’ they stop at the other end. And then the next couple goes through the same process, as they went through, on and on until they all start rolling the tater. And you sing . . .”) Roll, roll, rolly roll, Rolly roll the tater. Rolly roll, rolly roll, I wish I had a tater. Also found in Randolph, Vol. III, #582. |
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