Johnnie Come Down to Hilo
Cotton Screwing Shanty
Traditional


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REVISED 02/07/08

 

Dean Ain't seen the like since I've been born,  
Maggie An Arkansas farmer with his sea boots on. (Chorus)
 

Chorus:

all Johnny come down to Hilo, poor old man.
boys So wake her!
girls Wake her!
boys shake her!
girls Shake her!
all wake that gal with the blue dress on.
girls Johnny come down to Hilo,
all  poor old man.
 
JON I got a gal across the sea,  
CHRISTIE She's a 'Badian beauty and she says to me. (Chorus)
     
JON Sally's in the garden picking' peas,  
CHRISTIE Hair on her head hanging down to her knees. (Chorus)
     
DEAN My wife died down in Tennessee,  
MAGGIE They sent her jawbone back to me. (Chorus)
     
dean I set that jawbone on the fence,  
CHRISTIE And I ain't heard nothing but the jawbone since. (Chorus)
     
JON So hand me down my riding cane,  
GINA I'm off to see Miss Sarah Jane! (Chorus)


 


"'Badian beauty" — Badian Island is a contemporary vacation spot in the Philippine island chain.