Song – Butternut Hill

WRITER

  • Bob Gibson
  • Bob Camp

PUBLISHER(S)

  • Robert Josiah Music

Song Licensing information

RECORDINGS BY OTHER ARTISTS

  • None

FAYE ASKS 500G
FOR DITTY DAMAGE!

Chicago- A Bob Gibson and Bob Camp folk album on Elektra is the subject of a $500,000 law suit and is being pulled off the shelves. Complainant is Frances Faye, who says the song, “Butternut Hill” has caused her “irreparable injury.”

Billboard - 1962

LYRIC

Butternut Hill

Sad I sit on Butternut Hill
Who could blame me, cry my fill
And every tear would turn a mill
Johnny has gone for a soldier

Me-o-my, I loved him so
Broke my heart to see him go
Now Johnny don’t like girls no mo’
Johnny has gone for a soldier

Me-o-my, ah well-a-day
Johnny’s gone the other way
Now he’s just like Frances Faye
Johnny has gone for a soldier

B. Goode & B. Kuhl (Gibson & Camp)
© Robert Josiah Music

Butternut Hill

by Bob Gibson & Bob Camp | At The Gate Of Horn