Your Blue Eyes Drive Me Crazy- Coon Hunters (WV) 1927
[From Victor recording 21645 dated August 5, 1927 by West Virginia Coon Hunters for Ralph Peer at Victor Records "Bristol Sessions." The first stanza is from the old minstrel song, "The Gal from the south." The second is found in "Cindy" and the last I associate with Shady "Grove."
The Coon Hunters, a large string band from Bluefield with at times nine members, recorded only one other song, "Greasy String" in Bristol. Their brief recording career ended when they were not called back by Victor for another session.
R. Matteson 2018]
Your Blue Eyes Drive Me Crazy
[instrumental]
Verse: Mossy had a yeller gal
He brought her from the south
Her hair up on her head so tight[1]
And couldn't shut her mouth
Chorus: Fly around, my purty little miss
Fly around my daisy;
Fly around my purty little miss
Your blue-eyes drive me crazy.
[instrumental]
Verse: Susie tried to kiss me,
She called me sugar plum
She put her arms around my neck
I thought my time had come. [Chorus:]
[instrumental]
Verse: Went to see my Susie,
Standing in the door,
Shoes and stockings in her hand,
Feet all over the floor. [Chorus:]
[instrumental]
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1. Unclear. This stanza is from the old minstrel song, "The Gal from the south." In print the line appears "Her hair was wrapped too close and tight." Another regional version has "Her hair was kinked upon her head."