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DOOLEY

Words by Mitchell F. Jayne, Music by Rodney Dillard - 1963

Verse:
G	C	G	D7
G	C	G              D7	G
G	C	G	D7
G	C	G              D7	G
Chorus:
G	-	C	C7
G	-	-               D7	G         (repeat all)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Verses:

Dooley was a good ole man, He lived below the mill,
Dooley had two daughters and a forty-gallon still.

One gal watched the boiler, The other watched the spout,
And mama corked the bottles when old Dooley fetched them out.

 

The revenuers came for him, A-slippin' though the woods,
Dooley kept behind them all and never lost his goods.
Dooley was a trader, When into town he'd come,
Sugar by the bushel and molasses by the ton.

 

Chorus:

Dooley slippin' up the holler, Dooley try'in to make a dollar,
Dooley give me a swaller and I'll pay you back someday.

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Watch the Darlings (Dillards) perform "Dooley" (youtube)

 

Watch Kristin Scott Benson on banjo and the Grascals perform "Dooley" (youtube)

 

Watch Grandpa Jones perform "Dooley" (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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