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Diddychwy live at BartonVale Gardens Retirement Village singing 'Mountain Dew'
Tony Gill (Senior): Lead and harmony vocals / Whistle and Flute. Dominic Gill: Lead and harmony vocals and Guitar. Ingrid Hapkey: Harmony vocals and Fiddle. Cliff Milne: Lead and harmony vocals and Electric Bass. Sound engineer. Special thanks to Ray Thomas for recording this show.
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A history of the song Mountain Dew
Words of the song Mountain Dew
Written music of the song Mountain
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A history of the song Mountain Dew
Wiki says that, "Mountain Dew (also known as Mtn Dew as of late 2008) is a soft drink distributed and manufactured by PepsiCo. The main formula was invented in Knoxville, Tennessee, named and first marketed in Knoxville and Johnson City, TN in the 1940s, then by Barney and Ally Hartman, in Fayetteville, North Carolina and across the United States in 1964.[1] When removed from its characteristic green bottle, Mountain Dew is bright yellow-green and translucent." About the same colour your vomit would be if you drunk too much of alcoholic version. For originally, Mountain Dew was - according to Wiki, - for "the homemade alcoholic beverage, see Moonshine" This is the drink that diddychwy is singing about. Not that we drink it ourselves or indeed that we make it, for that would be totally illegal! But like all good folkies, we're just singing and reminiscing about "the good old days." Don't confuses the song, "Mountain Dew" with the song, "the rare old mountain dew."
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Words of the song Mountain Dew
Now there far from me there's an old holler tree
Where you lay down a dollar or two
You go round the bend and you come back again
With a jug of that good ole mountain dew
They call it that ole mountain dew Lord, Lord
And them that refuse it are few
Gonna hush up my mug if you'll fill up my jug
With that good ole mountain dew
The preacher came by with his head high, said, "Hi"
I said, "His wife had, took down with the flu"
And he thought that we're hard just to give him a quart
Of that good old mountain dew
Well they call it that ole mountain dew Lord, Lord
And them that refuse it are few
Gonna hush up my mug if you'll fill up my jug
With that good ole mountain dew
And now my uncle Mort he's sawed off and he's short
And he measures 'bout four foot two
But he thinks he's a giant when you give him a pint
Of that good old mountain dew
Well they call it that ole mountain dew Lord, Lord
And them that refuse it are few
Gonna hush up my mug if you'll fill up my jug
With that good ole mountain dew
Gonna hush up my mug if you'll fill up my jug
With that good ole mountain dew
And if your looking to sing a song that last 30 minutes, well 'Mountain Dew' is the perfect song to do it with. There are plenty of verses available. Here's just a few.
Mountain Dew
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My brother Bill runs a still on the hill
Where he turns out a gallon or two
And the buzzards in the sky get so drunk they can't fly
Just from sniffing that good old mountain dew.
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They call it that good old mountan dew,
And them that refuse it are few.
I'll hush up my mug if you'll fill up my jug
With that good old mountain dew.
My uncle Mort, he is sawed off and short,
He measure 'bout four foot two,
But he thinks he's a giant when you give him a pint
Of that good old mountain dew.
You take a little trash and you mix it with ash,
And you throw in the soul of a shoe,
Then you stir it awhile with an old rusty file,
And they call it that good old mountain dew.
During the war we couldn't get any more,
We didn't have no sugar for the dew
With a few old potaters and a few ripe tomaters,
We turned out some stuff, I'm tellin' you
I know a guy named Pete, his hair ain't so neat,
Though he fixes it with syrup and blue,
But it stays right in place when he uses just a trace
Of that good old mountain dew.
Old Auntie June had a brand new perfume,
It had such a wonderful "pew"
But to her surprise, when she had it analyzed,
It was nothing but that good old mountain dew
Old Deacon Crane took a trip in the rain,
Said his wife had come down with the flu,
And hadn't I ought just to give him a quart
Of that good old mountain dew.
There's an old hollow tree just a little way from me
Where you lay down a dollar or two
If you hush up your mug, then they'll give you a jug
Of that good old mountain dew
Mr Roosevelt told me just how he felt
The day that the dry law went through:
If your likker's too red, it will swell up your head
Better stick to that good old mountain dew
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The preacher walks by with a tear in his eye
Said that his wife had the flu
She'll be alright if you give her a pint
Of that good old mountain dew
My uncle Klaus had a real mean old mouse
When they asked how it happened,
He said it was a lappin'
That good old mountain dew
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Written music of the song Mountain
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