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Lyrics for Sweet Betsy From Pike by Unknown:
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| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Sweet Betsy From Pike | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 193 | | | | Lyrics: | SWEET BETSY FROM PIKE
Did you ever hear tell of sweet Betsy from Pike
Who crossed
the wide prairies with her lover Ike,
With two yoke of cattle and one spotted hog,
A tall
shanghai rooster, and old yaller dog?
Sing too rali oorali oorali ay
Sing
too rali oorali oorali ay
One evening quite early they camped on the Platte,
'Twas
near by the road on a green shady flat;
Where Betsy, quit tired, lay down to repose,
While
with wonder Ike gazed on his Pike County rose.
CHORUS
Out on the prairie
on bright starry night
They broke the whiskey and Betsy got tight
She sang and she shouted
and danced o'er the plain,
And showed her bare arse to the whole wagon train.
CHORUS
The injuns came down in a wild yelling horde,
And Betsy was scared they would
scalp her adored;
Behind the front wagon wheel Betsy did crawl,
And there she fought the
injuns with musket and ball.
CHORUS
They soon reached the desert, where
Betsy gave out,
And down in the sand she lay rollin' about.
While Ike in great wonder
looked on in surprise,
Sayin' "Betsy, get up! You'll get sand in your eyes."
CHORUS
They stopped at Salt Lake to inquire the way,
And Brigham declared that sweet
Betsy should stay.
But Betsy got frightened and ran like a deer
While Brigham stood pawin'
the earth like a steer.
CHORUS
The alkali desert was burning and
bare,
And Isaac's soul shrank from the death that lurked there:
"Dear old Pike County,
I'll go back to you."
Says Betsy, "You'll go by yourself if you do."
CHORUS
Long Ike and sweet Betsy attended a dance
And Ike wore a pair of his Pike
County pants.
Sweet betsy was dolled up in ribbons and rings,
Said Ike "You're an angel,
but where are your wings?"
CHORUS
A miner said "Betsy, will you dance
with me?"
"I will, you old hoss, if you don't make too free;
But don't dance me hard. Do
you want to know why?
Daggone you, I'm chock full of strong alkali."
CHORUS
They swam the wide rivers and crossed the tall peaks,
And camped on the
prairie for weeks upon weeks,
Starvation and cholera and hard work and slaughter,
They
reached California spite hell and high water.
CHORUS
Long Ike and sweet
Betsy got married, of course
But Ike, getting jealous, obtained a divorce.
Sweet Betsy,
quite satisfied, said with a shout
"Goodbye, you big lummox, I'm glad you backed
out."
CHORUS
A favorite California immigrant song of the fifties.
Carl
Sandburg writes: "It has the stuff of a realistic novel. It is
droll and don't
-care, bleary and leering, as slippery and
lackadaisical as some of the comic characters of
Shakespeare."
@pioneer @west
Recorded by Frank Warner
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