Flim-A-Lim-A-Lee: Older (NY) 1963 REC Paton
[From Adirondack Songs Ballads and Fiddle Tunes - Lawrence Older, 1963; Recorded Sandy Paton.
R. Matteson 2014]
Flim-A-Lim-A-Lee- Lawrence Older, 1963 (Guitar w/vocal)
Where are you going? I am going to the fair
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly
If you see my girl tell her I'll be there,
To my tassle-o fallasa-lo
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly
Tell her to make me a cambric shirt,
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly
With out one stitch of needle work
To my tassle-o fallasa-lo
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly.
Tell her to wash it in the well
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly
Where never one drop of water has fell
To my tassle-o fallasa-lo
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly.
Tell her to hang it on yonder thorn
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly
Where the sun ain't shown since Adam was born
To my tassle-o fallasa-lo
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly.
Where are you going? I am going to the fair
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly
If you see my love tell him I'll be there,
To my tassle-o fallasa-lo
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly.
Tell him to buy me an acre of land
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly
Between salt sea and salt sea sand
To my tassle-o fallasa-lo
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly.
Tell him to plow it with a ram's horn,
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly
An sow it with a peppercorn,
To my tassle-o fallasa-lo
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly.
Tell him to reap it with a pen knife
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly
And haul it in with a yoke of mice,
To my tassle-o fallasa-lo
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly.
Tell him to reap it with a goose quill
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly
And thrash it in an old egg shell
To my tassle-o fallasa-lo
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly.
When the fool has his work
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly
Tell him to come and get his shirt
To my tassle-o fallasa-lo
Flim-alim-alee casalow mol-ly.