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i Had a little fight in Mexico, Wasn't for the girls, the boys wouldn't go.*
Chorus:
Sing tol-de-rol, sing tol-de-ray.
Sing tol-de-rol, sing tol-de-rol-de-ray.
2 Come to the place where the blood was shed, The girls turned back and the boys went ahead,
3 And the girls and the boys where they did meet, They laughed and talked and kissed so sweet.
4 You better get up, you're mighty in the way, Choose you a partner and come along and play.
5 Oh, that little fight in Mexico, None was killed but John Taylor-o.
6 I had an old hat with a flop-down brim,
It looked like a toad frog settin' on a limb.
7 I had an old cow and I milked her in a gourd, Set it in a corner and covered it with a board.
8 I want to go to Texas, and to Texas I'll go, And I'll vote for old John Tyler-o.
9 I went to the fight in Mexico, Fightin' for the gunboats all in a row.
Repeat stanzas 2, 3, 4. |
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* Stanzas 4 and 5 from B. A. Botkin, The American Flay-Party Song, p. 233 j stanzas 6-9, from manuscript sent to John A. Lomax thirty years ago. This version is entitled "Old John Tyler" and gives 1841 as the date of the song. |
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