A comic song from 1871
Arranged by Eddie Fox
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Benjamin R. Tubb:
Lyrics
- The time has come, I must go,
I must play on the old banjo;
Walk, dad Lew, Oh, Mister Lew!
Ehe! ehe! he! here me now
The time has come, I do declare;
I want a lock of my girl’s hair;
Walk, dad Lew, Oh, Mister, Lew!
Ehe, ehe! he! hear me now
Chorus
I’m going a way to leave you.
Good bye, good bye;
I’m going a way to leave you.
Good bye, Liza Jane.
I’m going a way to leave you.
I’m going down to Lynchburg town;
If you get there before I do,
It’s good bye, Liza Jane.
- Behind the hen-house, on my knees,
I thought I heard a chicken sneeze;
Walk, dad, Lew, Oh, Mister Lew!
Ehe, ehe! he! hear me now
Twas nothing but a Rooster saying his pray’rs
And giving out a hymn, such a getting up stairs;
Walk, dad Lew, Oh, Mister Lew!
Ehe! ehe! he! hear me now
3. Chickens and hens have gone to roost,
A hawk flew down and bit an old goose;
Walk, dad Lew, Oh, Mister Lew!
Ehe! ehe! he! hear me now
Bit a young duck in the middle of the back,
Made the old drake go quack, quack, quack;
Walk, dad, Lew, Oh, Mister Lew!
Ehe! ehe! he! hear me now
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: