Don’t you rock me daddy-o    (intro)    (sample)

 

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1. Me and my brother was going’ to town (sing away, lady, sing away),

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    round the billygoat leadin' a hound (sing away, lady, sing away).

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    Hound got dumped, billygoat jumped (sing away, lady, sing away),

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    throw'd my brother right over that stump (sing away, lady, sing away).

 

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Don't you rock me daddy-o, don't you rock me daddy-o.

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Don't you rock me daddy-o, don't you rock me daddy-o.

 

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2. Well, my old auntie promised me (sing away, lady, sing away),

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    when she'd die she'd will to me (sing away, lady, sing away).

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    But she lived so long, her head got bald (sing away, lady, sing away),

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she got out the notes and the dimes and all (sing away, lady, sing away).

 

+ CHORUS             + instrumental = verse 2

 

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    Sing away, lady, sing away !        Sing away, lady, sing away !

 

+ CHORUS

 

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3. Me and my brother was going’ to town (sing away, lady, sing away),

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    round the billygoat leadin' a hound (sing away, lady, sing away).

 

+ CHORUS

 

    (Lonnie Donegan)