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RYE WHISKEY (RYE WHISKEY, RYE WHISKEY) Sung by: Lowell Harness Recorded in Pangburn, AR 7/29/63 Click here to listen to the original recording If I don’t get rye whiskey, I surely will die. If the ocean was whiskey, and I was a duck, I’d dive to the bottom and never come up. (Chorus) I'll tune up my fiddle and rosin my bow, And I'll make myself welcome wherever I go. (Chorus) I'll eat when I'm hungry; I’ll drink when I’m dry. If I don’t get rye whiskey, I surely would die. (Chorus) Hiccups, oh, Lordy, how bad I do feel. Hiccups, oh, Lordy, how bad I do feel. Jack of diamonds, jack of diamonds, I’ve known you of old, You’ve robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold. (Mr. Harness: “That’s all I know of it.”) Also found in Randolph, Vol. III, #405, “Rye Whiskey, Rye Whiskey.” |
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