The Bulldog Down in Sunny Tennessee
[This is a parody of "The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee" written in 1899 by Harry Braisted and Stanley Carter. Charlie Poole recorded it in his very first session in 1925, and it was a hit for him. It begins:
On one morning bright and clear
My old homestead I drew near,
It's a village down in sunny Tennessee.
I was speeding on a train
That would carry me back again
To that girl I left in sunny Tennessee.
Doc Walsh wrote a parody, "Bull Dog Down in Tennessee" which was recorded on Columbia 15057-D, released in 1926; rec. 1925. His group, The Carolina Tar Heels, "The Bulldog Down in Sunny Tennessee" recorded it for Victor 20941, in 1927. Ashley & Foster retitled it, "Bull Dog Sal" (unissued, prob. Vocalion, 1933; on StuffDreans1) and Lester P. Bivins titled it, "Bull Dog Down in Tennessee" on Bluebird B-6950/Montgomery Ward M-7229 in 1937.
Crabtree's text is shortened, and probably taken from a recording.
R. Matteson 2014]
THE BULLDOG DOWN IN SUNNY TENNESSEE
She got long wavy hair,
And her face had freckles fair;
Don't you know that's the girl for me.
One day I said I'd go,
To see that gal you know;
For I longed to sit right down by her side.
But her daddy always had,
A big dog; he was bad,
And I never could ask her to be my bride.
Around the corner I could not see;
Heard this man holler "Sic!"[1]
And I know I's getting what I's looking for.
Then my my pants began to tear,
And the man began to swear;
And the bulldog chased me out of sunny Tennessee.
1. Crabtree has "Seek!"