Since I first heard it, Doyle Lawson’s “Sadie’s Got Her New Dress On” has been belligerently stuck in my head. Switch some stuff around, and it turns into a fairly adorable bedtime song for kids.
credits
from The Banjo Tree,
released December 23, 2014
Adapted from Doyle Lawson’s “Sadie’s Got Her New Dress On” (More Behind the Picture than the Wall, 2007)
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