Subject: Lyr Add: GIMME BACK MY FIFTEEN CENTS (Doc Watson)
From:
Mountain Dog
Date: 10 Apr 97 - 03:25 PM
Here's a Doc Watson tune of fairly late vintage, a toe-tappin little ditty about domestic disharmony. (I think it was recorded on Blue Sky Records in the mid-to-late 70s, the album named something like "Southern Comfort". In any case, it was one of the all-acoustic Doc and Merle LPs with a sort of "live on the back porch" sound.)
I'm a great fan of Doc's and will try to post lyrics (and such chords as I can glean and fumble from recordings) of some of my favorites as time permits.
GIMME BACK MY FIFTEEN CENTS
Performed by Doc and Merle Watson
I left my home in Tennessee,
Thought I'd learn to travel,
But then I met a pretty little girl
And soon we played the devil
I loved that gal and she loved me
And I thought we'd live together
But then we tied that fatal knot
And now I'm gone forever.
CHORUS: Gimme back my fifteen cents,
Gimme back my money;
Gimme back my fifteen cents
And I'll go home to Mammy.
Twas fifteen cents for the preacher man
A dollar for the paper,
Then dear old mother-in-law moved in
And, Lordy, what a caper!
I fiddled a tune for her one day
And she called me a joker
Then that old sow got mad at me
And hit me with a poker. CHORUS
I worked in town and I worked on the farm,
But there's no way t'suit'em
They're both so dad-burn mean t'me
Somebody oughta shoot'em.
I'm tired of looking at my mother-in-law
I'd like t'see m'Granny,
Gonna leave the state of Arkansas
And go back home t'Mammy! CHORUS
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