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Down the Road
Traditional Old-Time Breakdown and Song- Southeast US
ARTIST: Flatt & Scruggs- Country Music/Mercury 6211, 1949
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes; DATE: Early 1900’s
RECORDING INFO: Flatt & Scruggs- Country Music/Mercury 6211, 1949; Tony Rice - The Bluegrass Album Volume 3; Family Apostalic. Family Apostalic, Vanguard VSD 79301/2, LP (1969), cut# 1; Greenbriar Boys. Greenbriar Boys, Vanguard VRS-9104, LP (196?), cut#A.07; Grey, Sara. Back in the Airly Days, Waterbug WBG 0044, CD (1998), cut#20; Jenkins, Oren. American Banjo, Folkways FA 2314, LP (1966), cut# 9; Park, Ray. Fiddletown, Sierra SR4214, LP (1982), cut# 8; Seeger, Mike. American Fogies. Vol. 2, Rounder 0389, CD (1996), cut#25; Marion, Carlie. Going Across the River to Hear my Banjo Ring, Marimac 9018, Cas (1988), cut# 10
RELATED TO: “Ida Red,” “Over the Road I’m Bound To Go,” "Letter from Down the Road," "On the Road Again," "Kassie Jones," (Furry Lewis's version); Over the Woods and Through the Snow;
OTHER NAMES: “Down the Road Just a Mile or Two,” “Ida Red,”
SOURCES: Cohen/Seeger/Wood, pp. 208-209, "Over the Road I'm Bound"
NOTES: Part of the “Ida Red/Over the Road I’m Bound To Go/Feather Bed” group of songs. For detailed notes see “Ida Red.”
LYRICS:
Now down the road about a mile or two
Lives a little girl named Pearly Blue
About so high and her hair is brown
Prettiest thing boys in the town
Now every day and Sunday too
I walk the soles right off my shoes
I don't know why I love her so
That gal of mine lived down the road
Now any time you want to know
Where I'm heading down the road
Get my girl on the line
You'll find me there most any old time
Now old man had she owns the farm
From the hog lot to the barn
From the barn to the rail
He makes his living by carrying the mail
Now every day and Sunday too
I go to see my Pearly Blue
Before you hear that rooster crow
You see me headed down the road
Now down the road about a mile or two
Lives a little girl named Pearly Blue
About so high and her hair is brown
Prettiest thing boys in the town
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