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DOWN T UNCLE BILL's

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Date: 10/24/98
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DOWN T UNCLE BILLS... Words and Music by Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael. The Hoagy Carmichael website, http://www.hoagy.com/ lists the copyright date as 11/13/34,,,Southern Music Publishing..

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When the wind begins a blowin' and a whistlin' in the lock, Winter's rollin in. There's a butter churn a goin, and a turkey on the block, Down where the hills begin.

Come the first snappy weather, folks'll get together, DOWN T UNCLE BILL's, Down among the hills. There'll be all kinds of cousins, 'rriv-in by the dozens, DOWN T' UNCLE BILLS, Down among the hills. Table's set and you can bet, ev'ry one 'll get lots of turkey, "Forty pound"." Then we smoke and talk and joke, laugh until we choke when the cider comes 'round. All the kids will be yelpin' for a second helpin' DOWN T' UNCLE BILL'S, Down among the hills. Well it looks like snow-in, soon we'll all be goin' DOWN T'UNCLE BILL'S once more. Come the more.

(*)When the frost is on the pun'kin and the fodder's in the shock," winters roll-in' in. You can bet your coffee dunk'in There's a turkey on the block, Down where the hills begin.

Come the first snappy weather, folks'll get together, DOWN T UNCLE BILL's, Down among the hills. There'll be all kinds of cousins, 'rriv-in by the dozens, DOWN T' UNCLE BILLS, Down among the hills. Table's set and you can bet, ev'ry one 'll get lots of turkey, "Forty pound"." Then we smoke and talk and joke, laugh until we choke when the cider comes 'round. All the kids will be yelpin' for a second helpin' DOWN T' UNCLE BILL'S, Down among the hills. Well it looks like snow-in, soon we'll all be goin' DOWN T'UNCLE BILL'S once more. Come the more.

(*) = denotes attribution to James Whitcomb Riley

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