Darling Corey
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
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Lyrics:
Wake up, wake up darlin' Corey
What makes you sleep so sound?
The revenue officers are comin'
Gonna tear your still house down.
Chorus:
Dig a hole, dig a hole in the meadow,
Dig a hole in the cold, cold ground,
Dig a hole, dig a hole in the meadow
Gonna lay darlin Corey down.
Oh the first time I saw darlin' Corey
She was standin' in the door.
She had her shoes and her stockings in her hand
And her little bare feet on the floor.
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Oh the next time I saw darlin' Corey
She was standin' by the banks of the sea.
she had a 44 strapped around her body
And a banjo on her knee.
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Oh the last time I saw darlin' Corey
She had a wine glass in her hand.
She was drinkin' that sweet liquor
With a low down gamblin' man.
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Wake up, wake up my darlin';
Go do the best you can.
I've got me another woman;
You can get you another man.
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Can't you hear those bluebirds a singing?
Don't you hear that mournful sound?
They're preaching darlin' Corey's funeral
In some lonesome graveyard ground.
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The earliest published version of "Darlin' Corey" occurs as<br> verses within the song "The Gambling Man", collected from oral<br> tradition by Cecil Sharp, as sung by Mrs. Clercy Deeton, at<br> Mine Fork, Burnsville, N.C., on Sept. 19, 1918.<br> There are some similarities to "Little Maggie".<br> Burl Ives recorded "Darlin' Cory" it in his debut album<br> Okeh Presents the Wayfaring Stranger (issued August 1941 with<br> liner notes by Alan Lomax). It is the title song for<br> Pete Seeger’s 7”LP from Folkways. It was also recorded by<br> Buell Kazee, Flatt and Scruggs, Roscoe Holcomb,<br> John Hartford, Doc Watson, The Weavers, Bill Monroe and others.<br> More recently, it was recorded by The Kingston Trio.<br> It was printed in John and Alan Lomax's Best Loved American Folk Songs and<br> Alan Lomax's Folk Songs of North America.<br> I learned it first from their recording and then from Pete Seeger.<br>
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