BECKY DEAN

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Song Title
BECKY DEAN
Writers
Ledbetter, Huddie, Lomax Alan
Publisher
FOLKWAYS MUSIC PUBLISHERS, INC. (BMI)
Co-Publisher
Non-TRO Affiliate
% Publisher Controls
50%-US/100% WORLD EX US
Territory Controlled
WORLD
Themes/Keywords
Alcohol, Broke, Gambling, Games, Money, Murder, Playing games, Whiskey, Wine, Winning
Lyrics
Becky Dean, she was a gamblin’ gal;
She winned the money and she winned it fair.
Becky Dean, she was a gamblin’ gal;
She winned the money and she winned it fair.

Becky Dean had her games on the ground;
She winned all the money the skinners laid down.
Becky Dean had her games on the ground,
She winned all the money the skinners laid down.

(Spoken)This man and this woman was gamblin’.
He tried to take the money up when he had lost –
He was jivin’ the woman. He thought she didn’t
know no better. But when she found the money
was gone, she grabbed a singletree lyin’ on the
levee and draw back.

She started to hit one with a singletree,
Might-a heared the rascal holl’in’
“Honey, doncha murder me.”
She started to hit one with a singletree,
Might-a heared the rascal holl’in’
“Honey, doncha murder me.”

Becky Dean walked all the way from East St. Louis,
When she didn’t have but the one thin dime;
Becky Dean walked all the way from East St. Louis,
When she didn’t have but the one thin dime.

Didn’t spend it for whiskey, honey, and neither for wine,
She spent it all on “the sake of the man of mine.”
Didn’t spend it for whiskey, honey, and neither for wine,
She spent it all on “the sake of the man of mine.”

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