if you mourn for dickie i ll tell you right now over hedges and ditches and fields he had plowed he was an old man and he had but one cow he ran for his life just to get to his cow oh oh wicked wicked dickie done died oh oh wicked dickie done died if you mourn for dickie i ll tell you right now he was an old man and he had but one cow he ran for his life just to get to his cow over hedges and ditches and fields he had plowed when the old man heard that his cow she was dead over hedges and ditches and fields you see he had fled and he ran for his life just to get to his own over hedges and ditches and fields that were mown now i sit down and eat my dried meal but i have no milk what to put in my pail now old wicked dickie is dead now i have no butter to sop with my bread oh oh wicked oh oh wicked dickie done died wicked dickie done died if you mourn for dickie i ll tell you right now he was an old man and he had but one cow over hedges and ditches and fields he had plowed he ran for his life just to get to his cow