Grandma’s Song

Come a lou
Come a lou
Come a hi-low
Come a ram tam tam and a dippy dippy dow

Hear the row
The bow wow wow
The bugle's horn
The big fi-diddle and the hidey-ho
Through the woods
We're gonna roam, boys
Through the woods
We're gonna roam

Well, the first I saw was a blind man
As blind as he could be
He said he saw Corina sitting in a tall oak tree

Come a ram tam tam and a dippy dippy dow
Hear the row
The bow wow wow
The bugle's horn
The big fi-diddle and the hidey-ho
Through the woods
We're gonna roam, boys
Through the woods
We're gonna roam

All along the old backroad
The people stopped to talk at her garden gate
While inside
The family cried all through the night
'Cause the old woman had passed away

I loved her so
And oh, she was a special one
A lovely lady and a gentle soul
And she taught me to sing an old folk song
With a melody of a hundred years ago

And she sang
I come a lou
Come a lou
Come a hi-low
I come down the merry stream

I'm remembering
Those memories have given me so much
She wore her age so gracefully
There was not a living thing that she did not love
And I pray that there is a little of her in me

Oklahoma in the summertime
In her rocking chair
She's singing there
On the porch
While the hounds are howling through the hot black night
And that old fox
Well, he's a running like he never has done before

When you hear the melody
And when you play my song
Every note you hear from me
She's singing right along

And she sang
I come a lou
Come a lou
Come a hi-low

I'm remembering
All along the old backroad
The people stop to talk at her garden gate
While inside
The family cried all through the night
Did you hear that old Mrs. Whitten has passed away today