Buffy Sainte-Marie & Pete Seeger - Cindy

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Well, Cindy is a little gal
She lives away down south
She's so sweet the honeybees
Swarm around her mouth

Chorus:
Get along home, Cindy Cindy
Get along home, Cindy Cindy
Get along home, Cindy Cindy
I'll marry you some day

Well, I went to see my Cindy
She was standing in the door
Her shoes and stockings in her hands
Her clothes all over the floor

(Chorus)

My Cindy is a pretty girl
My Cindy is a peach
She throws her arms around my neck
And hangs on like a leech

(Chorus)

I wish I were an apple
A-hangin on the tree
An' every time that Cindy passed
She'd take a bite o' me

(Chorus)

She told me that she loved me
She called me Sugarplum
She drew her arms around me
I thought my time had come

(Chorus)

Wish I had a needle and thread
Wish that I could sew
I'd sew that gal to my coat tails
And down the road we'd go

(Chorus)

She loved me on the mountainside
She loved me on the hill
And every time she said "I won't"
Her echo said "I will!"

(Chorus)

She took me to the parlor
She cooled me with her fan
She said I was the prettiest thing
In the shape of mortal man

(Chorus)

She loves me in the summertime
She loves me in the fall
If she don't love me all the time
I want no love at all

(Chorus)

If I had a pretty gal
I'd put her on a shelf
Ev'ry time she smiled at me
I'd jump right up myself

(Chorus)

Buffy Sainte-Marie on Rainbow Quest with Pete Seeger (Episode 38)

Channel: Music
Uploaded: February 22, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Author: peglegsam

Length: 00:04:30
Rating: 4.89
Views: 93203

Tags: buffy sainte marie folk pete seeger mouth bow

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Video Comments:
jiggybone14 (December 2, 2008 at 1:28 am)
everytime ol cindy passed she'd take a lil bite outta me!
margot980 (December 1, 2008 at 4:25 am)
Aw, this is a treasure.
powerthomas (November 28, 2008 at 11:09 am)
nice hearing pete play some scruggs style every now and then in that clip.

something you don't hear too often.
nlows420 (November 5, 2008 at 3:29 am)
One of the weirdest, and most haunting things I've ever heard... Just gorgeous stuff!
banjoteeth (September 28, 2008 at 1:30 pm)
This is really awesome. Does anyone happen to know what tuning Pete's banjo is in? I play it in Open G, but I know that's not what this is in.
jacobehrlich (October 21, 2008 at 4:53 pm)
Well, Buffy tunes the bow to A and the song seems to be in the key of A, so Open A would make sense.

It also looks like Pete's using a capo on the 3rd or 4th fret, but I don't really know... hope I helped a little.
yogione (October 26, 2008 at 5:16 pm)
Pete himself was the creator of the first long necked banjo and here is playing it well as always. Indeed it seems to be tuned to A Major with the capo on the 4th which would suggest open, it would be tuned to an F chord. The treble string isn't clamped under the capo of course, but that doesn't matter. I know Pete has tuned his twelve string guitar at least a whole tone flat when he plays that instrument. No broken strings is a good thing. Surely, you can hear him tuning it, capo on.
nlows420 (November 5, 2008 at 9:51 pm)
The capo looks like it's on the third or fourth fret... And the song is definitely being sung in the key of A. I'm guessing Pete has tuned to G (but down a whole setp)... The capo on the fourth fret would then put him in the key of A. I think...
rachelrachelrose (September 26, 2008 at 8:19 pm)
We have to sing this in choir, much differently though
ThingsWeSaidToday (August 29, 2008 at 12:27 am)
"Well I know another vers, I could sing a couple more or so,but I think I'd very much like to hear that old mouth bow...."

Pete Seeger=genius.