Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
Day 173 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
This also travels under the names of "O Molly" and "My Horses Ain't Hungry." John Lomax gives a version called "Jack O' Diamonds," with one chorus going
If the ocean was whiskey, and I was a duck,
I'd dive to the bottom to get one sweet sup;
But the ocean ain't whiskey, and I ain't a duck,
So I'll play Jack O' Diamonds and then we'll get drunk.
O Baby, O Baby, I've told you before,
Do make me a pallet, I'll lie on the floor.
Texts and tunes are related to southern mountain songs, to old English and Scotch ballads, blends of "Old Smokey," "Clinch Mountain," "Skew Ball," "Rebel Soldier," "I'm a Poor Troubled Soldier."
Day 173 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
This also travels under the names of "O Molly" and "My Horses Ain't Hungry." John Lomax gives a version called "Jack O' Diamonds," with one chorus going
If the ocean was whiskey, and I was a duck,
I'd dive to the bottom to get one sweet sup;
But the ocean ain't whiskey, and I ain't a duck,
So I'll play Jack O' Diamonds and then we'll get drunk.
O Baby, O Baby, I've told you before,
Do make me a pallet, I'll lie on the floor.
Texts and tunes are related to southern mountain songs, to old English and Scotch ballads, blends of "Old Smokey," "Clinch Mountain," "Skew Ball," "Rebel Soldier," "I'm a Poor Troubled Soldier."
