Grandma's Song

All along the old back road, the people stopped to talk at her garden gate

while inside the family cried all through the night

because the old woman had passed away...

I loved her so and oh she was a special one

a lovely lady and a gentle old soul

and she taught me to sing an old folk song

it's got a melody of a hundred years ago

and she sang a come a lou come a lou come a high low

come down the merry stream

I'm remembering...

those memories have given me so much

she wore her age so gracefully

and there was not a living thing that she did not love

and I pray that there is a little of her in me

Oklahoma in the summertime

in her rocking chair she's a singin there on the porch

while the hounds are howling through the hot black night

and that ole fox he's a runnin like he never has done before

when you hear the melody and when

I play my song, every note you hear from me she'd sing right along

and she sang a come a lou come a lou come a high low

come down the merry stream

I'm remembering...

all along the old back road the people stopped to talk at her garden gate

while inside the family cried all through the night...

did you hear that old Mrs. Whitten

has passed away today...

come a lou come a lou come a high low

come down the merry stream

come a ran tan tan and a dippy dippy dow

hear the row the bow wow wow

the bugle's horn the big Fi-diddle

and the hidey ho through the woods

we're gonna roam boys, through the woods we're gonna roam

come a loo come a loo come a high low

come down the merry stream

come a ran tan tan and a dippy dippy dow

hear the row the bow wow wow

the bugle's horn the big Fi-diddle

Songwriter: Gail Davies

"Grandma's Song" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Gail Davies. The song was written as a tribute to her grandmother, Frances Marion Whitten. Davies features her grandmother's singing voice at the beginning of the track, singing part of "The Fox Hunting Song", a popular folk song. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyLLeq0N4-Q

(this video is without grandma singing at the beginning of the song)

Here are the lyrics that the grandmother sings at the beginning of the recording (link below)

The next I saw was a blind man, as blind as he could be

He said he saw Corina in the hollow tree

come a lou come a lou come a high low

down the merry stream

come a round down town come a dippy dippy dow

hear the row, the bow wow wow

bugle horn, the bid Fi-diddle and the hidey ho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ldIoa1LJ1M

(with grandma singing in the beginning)