Barefoot Nellie

Recordings

Single, Don Reno, Red Smiley and the Tennessee Cutups, 1955
Good Old Country Ballads, Reno and Smiley, 1959
The Carroll County Accident, Porter Wagoner & The Wagonmasters, 1969
I Know You're Married But I Love You Still, Don Reno, Red Smiley & the Tennessee Cutups, 1969
Livin' In The Past, The Kentucky Colonels, 1975
Pistol Packin' Mama, Good Old Boys, 1976
Collectors Edition, Vol. 4, Reno and Smiley, 1983?
Frank Wakefield & Good Old Boys, Frank Wakefield & Good Old Boys, 1992
Don Reno And Red Smiley And The Tennessee Cutups 1951-1959, Don Reno And Red Smiley And The Tennessee Cutups, 1993
Early Years 1951-59, Reno and Smiley, 1994
Old & In The Gray, Old & In The Gray, 2002

Notes

Played by the Black Mountain Boys on the 6th March 1964.

The lyrics used by the Black Mountain Boys are hard to decipher for some of the verses but they are something like;

There (fed?) a woodpecker sitting on a tree
Ma said (chicken but Nellie got him?)
Wrung his neck and picked him clean
Funniest chicken I ever seen.

(Chorus)
Ah Barefoot Nellie
Oh Barefoot Nellie
Eh Barefoot Nellie
You're the one for me.

( Inaudible verse)

Chorus....

Nellie went to town one day
Riding on a load of hay
Sold a man a trip to Mars
(Now she's behind the bars?)

Chorus....

Nellie put on her Sunday dress
Thought that it would look the best
Made out of an old pea sack
Hog feed wrote right on the back.

Chorus....

Nellie's got a pair of shoes
She can wear them if she choose
What is she got the blues?
Who wants to wear size twenty-two.

Chorus....

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