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While the song has a number of standard verses, it has also lent itself to some invented verses that are meant to be humorous, such as ''I like sugar, I like grits/ I like girls with great big eyes'' and ''Two old maids just a-laying on the sand/ Each one wishin' that the other was a man''. |
While the song has a number of standard verses, it has also lent itself to some invented verses that are meant to be humorous, such as ''I like sugar, I like grits/ I like girls with great big eyes'' and ''Two old maids just a-laying on the sand/ Each one wishin' that the other was a man''. |
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One version runs: |
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Standing on the corner with the lowdown blues |
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A great big hole in the bottom of my shoes |
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Honey let me be your salty dog |
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Let me be your salty dog |
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Or I won't be your man at all |
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Honey let me be your salty dog |
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Look it here Sal, I know you |
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Run down stocking and a wore out shoe |
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Honey let me be your salty dog |
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Let me be your salty dog |
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Or I won't be your man at all |
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Honey let me be your salty dog |
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Down in the wildwood sitting on a log |
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Finger on the trigger and an eye on the hog |
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Honey let me be your salty dog |
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Let me be your salty dog |
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Or I won't be your man at all |
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Honey let me be your salty dog |
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Well I pulled the trigger and the gun set go |
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The shot gun over in Mexico |
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Honey let me be your salty dog |
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Let me be your salty dog |
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Or I won't be your man at all |
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Honey let me be your salty dog |
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Salty down now |
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Let me be your salty dog |
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Or I won't be your man at all |
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Honey let me be your salty dog |
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Let me be your salty dog |
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Or I won't be your man at all |
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Honey let me be your salty dog |
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</poem> |
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==References== |
==References== |
Revision as of 16:56, 14 July 2011
"Salty Dog Blues" is a folk song. It has been recorded by blues, jazz, country music, bluegrass groups and other styles. A common version of the lyrics of the chorus of the song go: Let me be your salty dog/ Or I won't be your man at all/ Honey let me be your salty dog.
Performances
It has been performed by Kokomo Arnold, Papa Charlie Jackson, Lead Belly, Roger McGuinn, Kingston Trio, Kentucky Faith, Flatt and Scruggs, Hot Tuna, Ross Nickerson, Jelly Roll Morton, Rick Nelson, Mississippi John Hurt, The Morris Brothers, Blind Willie McTell, Reverend Gary Davis, Johnny Cash, Cat Power, Bo Carter, Freddie Keppard, Leon Redbone, Flogging Molly and many others.
The song appears in an episode of "The Andy Griffith Show" featuring a band called "The Dillards." In the show they were known as the Darling family, and did a wonderful rendition with Andy Griffith himself.
History
In his Library of Congress interviews, Jelly Roll Morton recalled a three-piece string band led by Bill Johnson playing the number to great acclaim, probably before 1910.
Curly Seckler, who played with Flatt and Scruggs and with Charlie Monroe, was interviewed by Frank Stasio on the December 26, 2008 edition of The State of Things (http://www.wunc.org/programs/tsot/). He was asked about the origin of the name "Salty Dog", and says he was told [who?] it was the name of a locally produced soft drink.
Lyrics
As with many folk songs, the lyrics can vary massively.
While the song has a number of standard verses, it has also lent itself to some invented verses that are meant to be humorous, such as I like sugar, I like grits/ I like girls with great big eyes and Two old maids just a-laying on the sand/ Each one wishin' that the other was a man.