Our Singing Country
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DARLING COREY
bb. No. 828. Aunt Molly Jackson, New York City. See Victor record No. 35838, for banjo accompaniment. Ca, p. 23.
Toast:
Here's to those that wears no clothes and has no wife to mend them, Here's to a boy that has jew dimes but a damn free heart to spend them.
uThere was a woman who used to say a lot of these here rough toasts; her na7ne was Suze Carroll an' her generation was knowed to be brave and tough. She could outcussy outdrink any man in Clay County} an' she would pass all sorts of rough remarks and jokesy but she couldn't be bought or persuaded to make a dishonest move against her husband."
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i Wake up, wake up, darling Corey, What makes you sleep so sound? The revenue officers is a-comin? To tear your stillhouse down.
2 Go away from me, darling Corey, Quit hanging around my bed, Pretty women run me distracted, Corn liquor's killed me stone-dead.
3 The last time I saw darling Corey, She had a dram glass in her hand; She was drinkm' down her troubles With that low-down, dirty man.
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