Ellie Rhee
Ellie Rhee, so dear to me
Is gone for ever more
And our home was down in Tennessee
Before this cruel war
Ellie Rhee, so dear to me
Is gone for ever more
And our home was down in Tennessee
Before this cruel war
My young love said to me
My mother won’t mind
And my father won’t slight you
For your lack of kind
Every day and all night,
I'm trying to tell you're all right.
Every day and every night,
I try to tell you it's black and white.
This tune was composed by Spencer the Rover
As valiant a man as ever left home
And he had been much reduced
Which caused great confusion
And that was the reason he started to roam
Famous instrumental. 'The Fair And Charming Eileen O'Carroll'; air collected from a blind Irish harpist in the late 1700s. John at the time of recording had no idea what the Gaelic title meant.
Did you hear a story about Cocaine Lill?
She had a cocaine house on a cocaine hill.
She had a cocaine dog and a cocaine cat,
She even had a cocaine rat.
And it's all around my brain...