Waterbound - traditional. sound clip
/Chickens crowing in the /old plowed field
/Chickens crowing in the /old plowed field
/Chickens crowing in the /old plowed field
/Down in North Caro/lina
CHORUS
/Waterbound, and I /can't get home
/Waterbound, and I /can't get home
/Waterbound, and I /can't get home
/Down in North Caro/lina
/Me and Tom and /Dave goin' home
/Me and Tom and /Dave goin' home
/Me and Tom and /Dave goin' home
Be/fore the water /rises
CHORUS
The /old man's mad and /I don't care
The /old man's mad and /I don't care
The /old man's mad and /I don't care
/I'm gonna get his /daughter
If he /don't give her up we're /gonna run away
If he /don't give her up we're /gonna run away
If he /don't give her up we're /gonna run away
/Down in North Caro/lina
CHORUS
/Get up Jenny, and /let's go home
/Get up Jenny, and /let's go home
/Get up Jenny, and /let's go home
Be/fore the water /rises
CHORUS
"This is a little play-party song from Grayson County, Virginia, that eventually became a favorite of the fiddlers and banjo pickers of that area. The 1938 Library of Congress recording by the famous Bogtrotters Band of Galax can be heard on Folkways FA 2363. The "B" part of the instrumental version suggests that the tune may hark back to the well-known 'Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight.' There is something especially appealing about the idea of a mountain frolic going on until morning up in some cove because the creekbed road was washed out." From Sing Out! Magazine, Vol. 18, #1, p. 14.