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Uploaded by on Feb 25, 2008

"A song Riley Puckett taught me to love"
Lew Dite with his banjo uke.

The last two verses are my own words.

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  • I've been watching your videos for some time, and have always enjoyed them. This one is great, and you seemed to have a lot of fun with it. Thanks for sharing your talent! Consider this one "favorited".

  • Thank you.

  • Oh, my, I haven't heard that one since I was a little kid! Where do you come up with 'em!

  • Mostly from old recordings. Ever since CD's came on the market digital recordings have been able to clean up the pops and crackles of old 78 recordings and make them available once again to anyone who wants to take the time to search them out. I have done this for years.

  • This song has very deep roots. It was a hit song recorded by "white" and "black" artists on cylinders in the 1890s. It was apparently an answer song to the 1880s song "Dars A Lock On De Chicken Coop Door" by Sam Lucas, who was about the third best-known "black" songwriter in the U.S., and had begun playing guitar in the 1860s.

  • Thanks for the background.

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  • ROFL

  • The Girls of the Golden West (Millie and Dolly Good) sang this song on the Rudy Vallee radio show in 1935.

  • I'll be darned, Lew! I didn't think anyone else knew this song. Tony and Juanita used to sing it on a Portland, Maine radio station. Thanks for keeping these old songs alive.

     ...Bill

  • I wanted to thank you for sharing this song. My grandfather, who passed two years ago, used to sing this song. I remember asking him about this song and he smiled, but was unable to give me the lyrics. Thank you...

  • Great! Ww used to have this record by H.M. Barnes and his Blue Ridge Ramblers, a 78 on the Brunswick label. I loved it, but sadly it got broken years ago. If you can get hold of a copy, its worth hearing. Thanks for sharing.

  • Great Song, check out the thirtees(?) recording of Curley Weaver and the Georgia Browns doing it, my favorite version.

    Thanks man!

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