Oh, How He Lied

DESCRIPTION: An "old villain" sits by a girl and smokes his cigar. She plays her guitar. "He told her he loved her but oh how he lied." They agree to marry, "but she up and died." She goes to heaven, he to hell ("sizzle, he fried"), listeners are warned against lies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1928 (recording, Joe Foss & his Hungry Sand Lappers)
KEYWORDS: courting marriage music death lie Hell humorous
FOUND IN: US Australia
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Meredith/Covell/Brown-FolkSongsOfAustraliaVol2, pp. 130-131, "Don't Tell a Lie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Pankake/Pankake-PrairieHomeCompanionFolkSongBook, p. 257, "She Sat on Her Hammock" (1 text)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 31, "Oh, How He Lied" (1 text)
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, pp. 235, 239, "She Sat in Her Hammock" (notes only)
DT, HELIED*
Roud #13621
RECORDINGS:
Joe Foss & his Hungry Sand Lappers, "Oh How She Lied" (Columbia 15268-D, 1928)
Pete Seeger, "Oh How He Lied" (on PeteSeeger31)
NOTES [20 words]: Meredith/Covell/Brown-FolkSongsOfAustraliaVol2 notes that the tune for this is a waltz by Joseph Franz Karl Lanner. - RBW
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