“Likes Likker Better Than Me (Brown-Eyed Boy)”

Description

"Oh I'm in love with a brown-eyed boy And he's in love with me But he's in love with a whiskey jug...." Singer laments that her young man "likes likker better than me." She says she thinks of marrying him, but life's hard as a whiskey-drinker's wife.

Notes

Pity we don't have the keywords "alcoholism" and "co-dependency." -PJS

Recordings

• New Lost City Ramblers, "Likes Likker Better Than Me" (on NLCR01) (NLCR12)
• Woodie Brothers, "Likes Likker Better Than Me" (Victor 23579, 1931; on LostProv1)

References

1. Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 75, "Likes Likker Better Than Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. DT, BRWNEYED*
3. BI, CSW075