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SWEET THING
do. No. 246. Acc. on guitar and sung by Leroy Allen on the Cummins State Farm, Ark., 1935. See Sh, 2:357, L0.2, 153. Version 2, from Knott County, Ky. In the past ten years this tune has been popular over the radio and on the phonograph, often as "The Crawdad Song."
1  What you gonna do when the liquor gives out, sweet thing? (2) What you gonna do when the liquor gives out?
A-standing on the corner with your mouth poked out, Sweet thing, sweet thing, sweet thing?
2  Danced all night with the bottle in my hand, A-looking for the woman ain't got no man.
3  Well, the boiler busted and the smokestack fell, Killed my darling dead as hell.
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