You'll forget you ever started out in Arkansaw to roam." You'll forget about your supper, you'll forget about your home, "Oh, we'll have a little music first and then some supper, too,īut before we have the supper we will play the music through. Oh, 'twas down in the woods of the Arkansaw,Īnd the night was cloudy and the wind was raw,Īnd he didn't have a bed, and he didn't have a bite,Īnd if he hadn't fiddled, he'd a travelled all night.īut he came to a cabin, and an old gray man,Īnd says he, "Where am I going? Now tell me if you can." The first version is the version taught to Northern school Children. The second version is the original version. My cabin never leaks when it doesn't rain."Īlbert Bigelow Paine's 1st version įrom The Arkansaw Bear: A Tale of Fanciful Adventure. "Get along," said he, "for you give me a pain Then patch the old roof till it's good and tight."īut the old man kept on a-playing at his reel,Īnd tapped the ground with his leathery heel. Get busy on a day that is fair and bright, The traveler replied, "That's all quite true, "I couldn't mend it now, it's a rainy day." So the stranger said "Now the way it seems to me, The cabin was a-float and his feet were wet,īut still the old man didn't seem to fret. That didn't seem to bother the man at all.Īnd stopped to hear him a-practicing away Tho' his rooftree leaked like a waterfall, It was raining hard, but the fiddler didn't care, And fiddled at a tune that he liked to hear,
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