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WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY (WHISTLING SONG) Sung by: Mrs. Mills Gammill Recorded in Timbo, AR, 7/30/53 Click here to listen to the original recording (Whistle--in a different key from that of the song) When I was a little boy, to London I'd go; I'd sit upon a picket like a monkey at a show, To my rye ding-a-ding, ding, diddle all the day. I set there as a giant passed by. (Whistle) I set there as a giant passed by; I looked up on him and his head was in the sky, To my rye ding-a-ding, ding, diddle all the day. He banged me a wrastle with a hop step jump run. (Whistle) He banged me a wrastle with a hop step jump run; Took him by the cuff of the neck and I slung him over town, To my rye ding-a-ding, ding, diddle all the day. Anybody here ever see this deed I done? (Whistle) Anybody here ever see this deed I done? The gold and the silver they give me weighed five thousand ton, To my rye ding-a-ding, ding, diddle all the day. When I travel, I travel like an ox. (Whistle) When I travel, I travel like an ox, And in my britches' pocket I carry my little box, To my rye ding-a-ding, ding, diddle all the day. When I lay down both tired and lame, (Whistle) When I lay down both tired and lame, I snore so loud they can hear me in Spain, To my rye ding-a-ding, ding, diddle all the day. Also found in Randolph, Vol. III, #357; Brown, Vol. III, #131. |
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