In article >,
notbob > wrote:

> On 2013-08-10, Michael Press > wrote:
>
> > If the ocean was whisky and I was a duck
> > I'd dive to the bottom and never come up.
>
> Oh yes! Classic ol' blues song, Rollin and Tumblin:
>
> Traditional: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgsC1WlAzWE
> Seriously pumped: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuXcGHjBeac
>
> > Whisky! Rye whisky. Whisky I cry.
> > If I don't get rye whisky I'll live 'til I die.
>
> Still looking for this one.

Tex Ritter. I consider many of his renditions of
traditional songs to be definitive. Barbara Allen,
Face on the Bar Room Floor, Bury Me Not on the Lone Praire,
Blood on the Saddle, Streets of Laredo.

--
Michael Press