Darling Alalee

Recordings

Darling Alalee
Country Songs Old & New, The Country Gentlemen, 1960
Folk Songs From The Hills, The Springfields, 1963
Single, The Country Gentlemen, 19??
Darling Alalee, Bristol Mountain Bluegrass, 1982
Over the Hills and Far Away, The Springfields, 1997
High Lonesome: Complete Starday Recordings, The Country Gentlemen, 1998
Sweet Alalee or Sweet Alla Lee
Red Rector, Red Rector, 1973
Sunny Side of Life, The Blue Sky Boys, 1973
Take Me Back To Happy Valley, The Bailey Brothers and The Happy Valley Boys, 1974
Almost Alone, Chet Atkins, 1996
The Original And Great Early Authentic Country Recordings, Blue Sky Boys, 19??
Sunny Side of Life (Bear Family box set), The Blue Sky Boys, 2003
The Blue Sky Boys, The Blue Sky Boys, 2007

Notes

Played by the Black Mountain Boys on the 6th and 7th March 1964.

Only a few references to this song have been located to date. They all use the Alalee spelling. Occurs as Darling Alalee and Sweet Alalee.

May be the same song as Darling Zelma Lee.

The lyrics of the version performed by the Black Mountain Boys are as follows;

Sweet Alalee so dear to me,
She's gone for ever more,
My home was down in Tennessee,
Before the cruel war.

(Chorus)
And carry me back to Tennessee,
There (to dwell?) (?)
Among the fields of yellow corn,
With my darling Alalee.

Oh why did I from day to day,
Keep wishing to be free,
And from my master run away,
And leave my Alalee.

Chorus...

They said that I would soon be free,
And happy all the day,
But if they take me back again,
I'll never run away.

Chorus...