BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE Lyrics Words text trending folk sing along music song Pete Seeger cover NY

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BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE Lyrics Words text trending folk sing along music song
Come all you good fellas, wherever you be
Come sit down awhile and listen to me
The truth I will tell you without a mistake
of the rackets we had down in
BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE
Derry down, down-down derry down
There's Sullivan brothers & Big Jimmy Lou
and Old Moose Gilbert and Dandy Pat too
A good lot of fellas as ever was seen
And they all worked for Griffin on township 19

Bill Mitchell, you know, he kept our shanty
And as mean as a man as you ever did see
He'd lay round the shanty
from morning till night
and if a man said a word, he was ready to fight
Derry down, down-down derry down
One morning 'fore daylight Jim Lou he got mad
he knocked out Bill Mitchell
and the boys were all glad, and
his wife she just stood there-the truth I will say
She was tickled to death to see Bill Mitchell lay

Old Griffin just stood there
the crabby old Drake
a hand in the racket, we thought he would take
When some of the boys came & took him away
"By God, " said old Griffin "I've nothing to say"
Derry down, down- down derry down
You can talk of your fashions & styles to be seen
But there's none to compare with our cook of 19
She's short, thick and stout, without a mistake
& the boys call her Nellie-the belle of Long Lake

And now my good fellas adieu to you all
for Christmas is coming
and I'm going to Glens Falls
and when I get there, I'll go out on a spree
'for you know when I've money,
the devil's in me
Derry down, down- down derry down

Pete Seeger cover NY

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