Cindy
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
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Lyrics:
You ought to see my Cindy
She lives away down south
She's so sweet that honeybees
Swarm about her mouth.
Chorus:
Get along home, Cindy Cindy
Get along home.
Get along home, Cindy Cindy
I'll marry you some day.
Cindy in the summertime
Cindy in the fall
If I can't have Cindy all the time
Have no one at all.
Chorus
Cindy is a pretty girl
Cindy is a peach;
Threw her arms around my neck
Hung on like a leach.
Chorus
Cindy got religion,
Tell you what she done:
Walked up to the minister
Chawed her chewin' gum.
Chorus
Cindy got religion,
She had it once before
When she heered my old banjo
She's the first one on the floor.
Chorus
Cindy got religion
She really went to town;
Got so full of glory, Lord,
Shook her stockin's down.
Chorus
If I had a pretty gal
I'd put her on a shelf;
Ev'ry time she smiled at me,
I'd jump right up myself.
Chorus
Cindy had one blue eye
She also had one brown
One eye looked in the country
The other one looked in town
Chorus
Wish I was an apple
Hangin on a tree
An' every time my Cindy passed
She'd take a bite o' me
Chorus
"Cindy", also known as "Cindy in the Summertime", "Cindy in the Meadows",<br> "Get Along Home Cindy", "Cindy, Cindy" and other titles is a widely known<br> frolic tune, appearing in many folk music collections<br> and even old elementary school songbooks. The title appears in a list<br> of traditional Ozark Mountain fiddle tunes compiled by<br> musicologist/folklorist Vance Randolph, published in 1954, and was<br> recorded for the Library of Congress in 1939 by Mississippi fiddler<br> John Brown. According to John Lomax, the song originated in North Carolina.<br> As with many folk songs, many verses are floaters from other<br> songs, including "Old Joe Clark" and "Boil Them Cabbage Down".<br> The tune is taken from the spiritual The Gospel Train, also<br> known as "Get on Board Little Children".<br> It is printed in Pete Seeger's American Favorite Ballads,<br> Alan Lomax's The Folk Songs of North America and John and Alan Lomax's<br> Best Loved American Folk Songs.<br>
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