If you mourn for Dickie, I'll tell you right now   There 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      Oh, oh wicked   Wicked Dickie done died   Oh, oh wicked Dickie done died      If you mourn for Dickie, I'll tell you right now   There 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 fled   And he ran for his life just to get to his home   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 I have no butter to soften my bread   Now old wicked Dickie is dead      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