Lyrics | Pete Seeger | Rye Whiskey

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Frontier Ballads

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1954

Rye Whiskey

Pete Seeger

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Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry

If you don't give me rye

Whiskey I surely will die

If the ocean was whiskey and I was a duck

I'd dive to the bottom and never come up

Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry

If you don't give me rye

Whiskey I surely will die

Way up on Clinch Mountain I wander alone

I'm drunk as the devil, just leave me alone

Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, it's whiskey I cry

If you don't give me rye

Whiskey I surely will die

I'll eat when I'm hungry

I'll drink when I'm dry

If a tree don't fall on me

I'll live 'til I die

Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, it's whiskey I cry

If you don't give me rye

Whiskey I surely will die

It's whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry

If you don't give me rye

Whiskey I surely will die

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Woody Guthrie, DP

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