Lonzo and Oscar with their Winston County Pea Pickers Lyrics

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Cornbread, 'Lasses and Sassafras Tea
Girls Don't Nag Your Husbands
I'll Go Chasin' Women
I'm My Own Grandpa
I Wonder Why She Almost Drives Me Wild
If Texas Told What Arkan-saw Then What Did Tennes-see
Last Ole Dollar
Love is Sweet But Oh How Bitter
My Adobe Hacienda
My Dreams Turned Into a Nightmare
Near You
Ole Buttermilk Sky
Ole Mother Nature
Onions Onions
Poppin' Bubble Gum
Pretty Little Indian Maid
She's the Best I Ever Saw
Sheekpskin Corn
Take Them Cold Feet Outa My Back (Before I Kick You Out)
There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
Tickle the Tom Cat's Tail
Watching the Girls Go By
When You Were Sweet Sixteen
Who Pulled the Plug From the Jug
You Blacked My Blue Eyes Once Too Often
You Won't Do It No More

Cornbread, 'Lasses and Sassafras Tea (George/Sullivan)

Come here girls and listen to my noise
Don't you marry an Arkansas boy
Marry a feller from Tennessee eat
Cornbread and 'lasses and sassafras tea
Cornbread and 'lasses and sassafras tea

Traveled all over this whole wide world
Eat a lotta cookin' from a lotta pretty girls
But there's none like Tennessee
With cornbread and 'lasses and sassafras tea
Cornbread 'lasses and sassafras tea

Grandpa Snazzy lives on the hill
He ain't never died and I guess he never will
The neighbors all around say he's ninety three
The old man's happy as he can be eatin'
Cornbread 'lasses and sassafras tea
Cornbread 'lasses and sassafras tea

Old Uncle Jim on his dyin' bed
He called 'em all around and then he said
My last request just let it be
Cornbread 'lasses and sassafras tea
Cornbread 'lasses and sassafras tea

Come here girls and listen to my noise
Don't you marry an Arkansas boy
Marry a feller from Tennessee eat
Cornbread and 'lasses and sassafras tea
Cornbread and 'lasses and sassafras tea

Cornbread and 'lasses and sassafras tea

Girls Don't Nag Your Husbands (Davis/Taylor)

Girls don't nag your husbands
They are your pride and joy
You know before you hooked him
He was his mother's boy

She sacrificed her darling
That you might happy be
Girls don't nag your husbands
They must be weary free

Girls don't smoke cigarettes
He wants your love you know
And don't drink whiskey either
Just give your man a fair show

Your maw used to drink saspariller
Be careful how you act
If you want a cigarette
Just try some chewing wax

(Oscar what did your wife say to you the other night
When you got home late?
Oh Lonzo she really told me off
Did she sure enough?
She said:

[This part sped up for effect]
(...prominent color is a rose bouquet on a live __________
I've been wondering how it would look on a potted blue rug
Well they have a potted blue background with a floral patterned rug)

Don't call your husbands a hootenanny
Remember if you do
Some big old blonde hair flapper
With great big eyes of blue

Will gaze around and see him
And steal his love away
Oh girls don't nag your husbands
You'll never know such a day

Girls don't wink at other boys
Your husband won't like it you know
And don't throw kisses either
Just give your man a fair show

Don't do things to make your neighbors
Think your husbands an old hen-pecked
Now we're both married men, girls
So we know what a man expects

(Well looky there Oscar here comes your wife
Well so it is ain't it Lonzo? Yes sure, it is
Well hello there darlin'

[This part sped up for effect]
But the most prominent color is a rose bouquet on a live __________
I've been wondering how it would look on a potted new rug
Well they have a potted blue background with a...)

Now we're both married men, girls
So we know what a man expects

I'll Go Chasin' Women (Hamblen)

Oh it's springtime in the mountains and I'm full of mountain dew
Can't even read my catalog like I used to do
I'm a-settin' in that little shed right back of the house
And there comes Jake with all his hounds, and he's going to hear me shout

I won't go huntin' with you Jake, but I'll go chasin' women
Go put your hounds back in the pen and quit that silly grinnin'
The moon is right, and I'm half tight; my life is just beginnin'
I won't go huntin' with you, Jake, but I'll go chasin' women

So let's go down to the meetin' house and flush them pretty quails
We're safe up in these mountains Jake, ain't got a single jail
We'll chase them down the corn rows, the sassy little misses
We'll scare them pretty gals to death; we'll stop to throw 'em kisses

I won't go huntin' with you Jake, but I'll go chasin' women
Go put your hounds back in the pen and quit that silly grinnin'
The moon is right, and I'm half tight; my life is just beginnin'
I won't go huntin' with you, Jake, but I'll go chasin' women

I was a headin' fer that general store, when a silly thing I seen
They make it in the city and it's called a magazine
I turned to page thirty-two, and look at what I found
Them gals wear clothes that we ain't seen beneath them gingham gowns

I won't go huntin' with you Jake, but I'll go chasin' women
Go put your hounds back in the pen and quit that silly grinnin'
The moon is right, and I'm half tight; my life is just beginnin'
I won't go huntin' with you, Jake, but I'll go chasin' women

I'm My Own Grandpa (Latham/Jaffe)

It sounds funny, I know,
But it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
It sounds funny, I know,
But it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

Now many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three,
I was married to a widder who was pretty as could be.
This widder had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her, and soon they, too, were wed.

This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life,
My daughter was my mother, cause she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad,
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
Of the widder's grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my stepmother.

I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
It sounds funny, I know,
But it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

Father's wife then had a son who kept him on the run,
And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother, and it makes me blue,
Because, although she is my wife, she's my grandmother, too.

I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
It sounds funny, I know,
But it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild,
And everytime I think of it, it nearly drives me wild,
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!

I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

I Wonder Why She Almost Drives Me Wild (George/Sullivan)

She's the worst gal that I ever saw
Jolie Blound wouldn't hold a light
Each day I get her off of my mind, but she comes right back at night
Slipped her cross the Tennessee border, fell in to careless hands
I love you so much dear, it hurts me, but you broke my heart again

Oh me, oh my
I sighed, and I cried
Oh me, oh my
I wonder why she almost drives me wild

I always liked the things of nature
I'm just a country boy you see
I had to take an ole cold tater when we had company
I always like to hear the cattle call
Candy kisses are in style
Why don't you haul off and love me
Or else I'm going wild

Oh me, oh my
I sighed, and I cried
Oh me, oh my
I wonder why she almost drives me wild

She'll almost drive you crazy, you'll nearly lose your mind
She's eight more mile from Louisville
She'll be here anytime
And when she does the smoky mountain boogie
I always run and ride, I'm a slipping around, when she's in town
She almost drives me wild

And then she broke my humpty dumpty heart
On a Tennessee Saturday night
She'd rob another's castle, that would be her big delight
I'm driving nails in my coffin, cause she's never satisfied
And I guess those wedding bells will ring
Cause she almost drives me wild

Oh me, oh my
I sighed, and I cried
Oh me, oh my
I wonder why she almost drives me wild

If Texas Told What Arkan-saw Then What Did Tennes-see (Freberg/Fay)

If Miss-issippi got New Jersey's, what would Dela-ware?
And if Wyomin' started roamin' would Montana care?
If Texas told what Arkan-saw then what did Tennes-see?
If you can answer that one, you're a better man than me.

Who knows the answer to this mystery?
If Texas told what Arkan-saw then what did Tennes-see?

If Okla- ain't a Homa, tell me where has Ore-gon
If Minne-sote a dress then would Virginia put it on?
If Carolina went to China, where would Georgia stay?
If Washing- is a Ton, just how much does Ioway?

Who knows the answer to this mystery?
If Texas told what Arkan-saw then what did Tennes-see?

If there were no potatoes, tell me what would Ida-ho?
If Kansas loaned New York a dollar, who would O-hi-o?
If Utah bothered Alabam, then who would Illinois?
Has South Dakota ever wrote an island in Hawaii?

Who knows the answer to this mystery?
If Texas told what Arkan-saw then what did Tennes-see?

If Florida would plant the seed, would Conneta-cut the grass?
Would Mary-land a fellar, if she went to Boston, Mass?
And how could Massa Chew-it with a broken upper plate?
Do you give up or would you like to try for 48?

Who knows the answer to this mystery?
If Texas told what Arkan-saw then what did Tennes-see?

Last Ole Dollar (George/Sullivan)

Oh, my last ole dollar's done gone
Oh, my last ole dollar's done gone
How can a poor boy get back home
When his last ole dollar's done gone?

Oh, I wrote to my girl last night
Oh, I wrote to my girl last night
Oh, I wrote to my girl that I was coming home
But my last ole dollar's done gone

Oh, that east bound train done run
Oh, that east bound train done run
Oh, the train done run, left me all alone
Cause my last ole dollar's done gone

Oh, I've dranked and I've rambled around
Oh, I've dranked and I've rambled around
Now the time has come when I want to go home
But my last ole dollar's done gone

Oh, my last ole dollar's done gone
Oh, my last ole dollar's done gone
How can a poor boy get back home
When his last ole dollar's done gone?

Love is Sweet But Oh How Bitter (Ladner/Botner)

Lumner Perkins was a handsome lad, up in them Ozark hills
He passed the time a running one of them there whiskey stills
With them Ozark beauties, Lumner had a way unto resist
Was plumb unknown and tweren't so long afore he'd have 'em kissed

Love is sweet but oh how bitter
To love a gal and then can't get her
Love is sweet but oh how bitter
To love a gal and then can't get her

Now it sure did turn the tables when a beauty came to town
As pretty as a picture, she was shaped-up all around
Just as soon as Lumner saw her, he become plumb-took by love
He started singing sweet love songs and a cooing like a dove

Love is sweet but oh how bitter
To love a gal and then can't get her
Love is sweet but oh how bitter
To love a gal and then can't get her

Now Lumner had a partner who he called his bussom pal
But sad was he, he never had appeal for any gal
So way up on the mountain in the fullness of the moon
He's singing in them Ozark hill, a longing for to spoon

But it turned out sad for Lumner when he took him by surprise
This pretty gal and his own pal before his very eyes
Had gone and got themselves hitched up, so now beneath the moon
Them Ozark hills keep ringing with the woo of Lumner's tune

Love is sweet but oh how bitter
To love a gal and then can't get her
Love is sweet but oh how bitter
To love a gal and then can't get her

My Adobe Hacienda (Massey/Penny)

In my adobe haciender
There’s a touch of Mexico
Cactus lovelier than the orchids
Blooming in the patio

(Sing it Lonzo)
Soft desert stars (yeah)
The strum of guitars
(Strum of the guitar)
Make ev’ry evening seem so sweet
In my adobe haciender
Life and love are more complete

In my adobe haciender
Nestled in the western hills
Evening breezes softly murmur
Harmony with whipperwills

(That's it, sing it Lonzo)
When setting sun (yeah)
Says a long day's done (shore is)
Sweet music starts to fill the air

In my adobe haciender
Harmony is everywhere

In my adobe haciender
Harmony is everywhere

My Dreams Turned Into a Nightmare (Innis)

I used to think I couldn't live without you
You were the sweetest thing I ever saw
It didn't cross my mind, when we were wed I'd find
That in the deal I'd get your maw and paw

Oh my dreams turned into a nightmare
That sad day when we both said I do
I didn't know that married bliss, was such a thing as this
Cause if I had, I'd a never married you

You used to be so meek and understanding
We'll never fuss you told me in advance
That statement sure was true, it's all left up to you
You fuss so much I just ain't got a chance

I used to dream about our little cottage
A four room bungalow, one story tall
But since your kinfolks came, they're driving me insane
The ten room flat we have is way too small

Oh my dreams turned into a nightmare
That sad day when we both said I do
I didn't know that married bliss, was such a thing as this
Cause if I had, I'd a never married you

Now I recall the day you made the statement
That with a baby boy, our life begins
There is a lot of joy, in a bouncing baby boy
But up to date, we've had four sets of twins

Oh my dreams turned into a nightmare
That sad day when we both said I do
I didn't know that married bliss, was such a thing as this
Cause if I had, I'd a never married you

Near You (Craig/Goell)

There's just one place for me
Near you

It's like heaven to be
Near you

Times when we're apart
I can't face my heart

Say you'll never stray
More than just two lips away
If my life could be spent
Near you

I'd be more than content
Near you

Make my wish come true
By telling me that you'll
Want to spend all your days
Near me

There's just one place fer me
Near you

It's like heaven to be
Near you

Times when we're apart
I can't face my heart

Say you'll never stray
More than just two lips away
If my life could be spent
Near you

I'd be more than content
Near you

Make my wish come true
By telling me that you'll
Want to spend all your days
Near me

(Whoa! Whoa! Oscar wait a minute
What in the flitter-tail did you stop me fer Lonzo?
Can't you see I was just a getting started there?
I know, but you're playing the wrong tune; you're a playing down yonder
How in the world could I be a playing down yonder
When I'm a playing right here near you
Now look, don't argue with me
Just start it and play it like you did at the first
Alright, excuse me Lonzo
Come on)

If my life could be spent
Near you

I'd be more than content
Near you

Make my wish come true
By telling me that you'll
Want to spend all your days
Near me

Ole Buttermilk Sky (Carmichael/Brooks)

Ole buttermilk sky
I'm a keepin' my eyes peeled on you
What's a good word tonight?
Are you gonna be meller and bright?

Ole buttermilk sky
Can't you see my little donkey and me
We're as happy as a christmas tree
Headin' fer the one I love

I'm gonna pop her the question
(Ya gonna ask her to marry you?),
That question (yeah)
Do you darlin', do ya do? (she won't do it)
It'll be easy, (yeah) so easy (so easy)
If I can only bank on you

Ole buttermilk sky
I'm a tellin' you now so you'll know
Keep it in mind tonight
Keep a brushin' those clouds from sight

Ole buttermilk sky
Don't you fail me when I'm needin' you most
Hang a moon above my hitching post
Hitch me to the one I love

You can if you try
Don't tell me no lie
Will you be meller and bright tonight?
Buttermilk sky

(He's about the best I ever heard
Ain't that purtty
I love to hear you play, you're good, you know what I like
Is that so Lonzo? Yeah, I love to hear you
Yeah, you're pretty too Lonzo ha! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, whew!
Shut it off and let's sing the song)

Ole buttermilk sky
I'm a tellin' you now so you'll know
Keep it in mind tonight
Keep a brushin' those clouds from sight

Ole buttermilk sky
Don't you fail me when I'm needin' you most
Hang a moon above my hitching post
Hitch me to the one I love

You can if you try
Don't tell me no lie
Will you be meller and bright tonight?
Buttermilk sky

Will you be meller and bright tonight?
Buttermilk sky

Ole Mother Nature (Freeman/Heatwole)

Ole mother nature is a funny thing
She makes the leaves turn brown and the grass grow green

That's ole mother nature, it's ole mother nature
She's here to stay, she's here to stay
I don't try to change it
Let mother nature have her way

A frog's got legs, but he needs some wings
So when he hops he wouldn't bust anything

That's ole mother nature, it's ole mother nature
She's here to stay, she's here to stay
I don't try to change it
Let mother nature have her way

You can see a rabbit when he runs at night
'Cause his tails so short, it makes a good spotlight

That's ole mother nature, it's ole mother nature
She's here to stay, she's here to stay
I don't try to change it
Let mother nature have her way

Now you take the duck with his big webbed feet
They set back under his rumble seat

That's ole mother nature, (quack quack quack)
She's here to stay, (she shore is ain't she Lonzo)
I don't try to change it
Let mother nature have her way

She chases a girl, that's the way it begins
Then she turns around and catches him

That's ole mother nature, (quick little grab)
She's here to stay, (yeah shore is)
I don't try to change it
Let mother nature have her way

Now you take a woman with her cunning ways
She'll marry you and you'll pay pay pay

That's ole mother nature, (well I'm always broke Lonzo
Yeah, me too, but I don't know why, but I guess we are
Yeah)
I don't try to change it
Let mother nature have her way

Onions Onions (Ellison/Coley)

I ran into the cutest gal, as sweet as she could be
It didn't take me long to see, she took a shine to me
Right from the start, she won my heart
This lovely little miss, but this is what she hollered
When I stole a little kiss

Onions onions, you've been a eating onions
I can't stand them, can't you plainly see
Onions onions, you've been a eating onions
Onions onions, keep away from me

I found myself another girl, she was a little rough
She always kept her bottom lip all loaded up with snuff
She soaked her feet with linament, which nearly knocked me out
But when she got one whiff of me, that gal began to shout

Onions onions, you've been a eating onions
I can't stand them, can't you plainly see
Onions onions, you've been a eating onions
Onions onions, keep away from me

I didn't have a date last night, I felt so all alone
Since there was nothing else to do, I grabbed my telephone
I called a gal I used to know, she answered right away
Before I hardly said hello, I heard that woman say

Onions onions, you've been a eating onions
I can't stand them, can't you plainly see
Onions onions, you've been a eating onions
Onions onions, keep away from me

My college football team was good, they never lost at all
On almost ever single play, they handed me the ball
When someone tried to tackle me, I blew my breath you see
He stepped aside and held his nose, and hollered after me

Onions onions, you've been a eating onions
I can't stand them, can't you plainly see
Onions onions, you've been a eating onions
Onions onions, keep away from me

Poppin' Bubble Gum (Turner)

Mama sent me to the store, sent me on the run
I fergot just what she sent me for
So I bought some bubble gum

Chewin' bubble gum
Poppin' bubble gum
Oh it's fun, it's so much fun
Just poppin' bubble gum

I went to see my gal last night, we had lots of fun
Just sittin' and chawin' and her folks annoyin'
By poppin' bubble gum

Chewin' bubble gum
Poppin' bubble gum
Oh it's fun, it's so much fun
Just poppin' bubble gum

Some folks like their t-bone steaks, cooked so well and done
They can like just what they may
We'll pop our bubble gum

Chewin' bubble gum
Poppin' bubble gum
Oh it's fun, it's so much fun
Just poppin' bubble gum

I took my gal to a movie show and what do ya think she done
When Como started in to croon
She popped her bubble gum

Chewin' bubble gum
Poppin' bubble gum
Oh it's fun, it's so much fun
Just poppin' bubble gum

I asked my galfriend for a kiss, she said that ain't no fun
I'd rather sit here by myself
And pop my bubble gum

Chewin' bubble gum
Poppin' bubble gum
Oh it's fun, it's so much fun
Just poppin' bubble gum

I asked my gal to marry me, she says I'm not so dumb
'Cause when I marry, I'll marry the man
That makes that bubble gum

Chewin' bubble gum
Poppin' bubble gum
Oh it's fun, it's so much fun
(Lonzo
Yeah
I believe I'll pop me a bubble right now
We'll go ahead, go ahead
Alright
Look out, look out
Now let's me and you sang the song
Come on
Ugh
Oh shucks Lonzo, I got gum in my eyes and I can't see my music
Well you can't read it no way, now sing
Awwww)
Chewin' bubble gum
Poppin' bubble gum
Oh it's fun, it's so much fun
Just a poppin' bubble gum

Pretty Little Indian Maid (George/Sullivan)

I was out on a reservation fer away from civilization
There is where the pale-face seldom trod
I was fishing one day, there I met an Indian maid
Daughter of the Big Chief Spare the Rod

So I threw some loving glances, then I took her to war dances
Prettiest little Indian maiden girl
She gave me all her money, then we rode the Indian pony
These are the loving words I said to her

Pretty little Indian Cherokee, take a chance and marry me
Your Father is the Big Chief I believe
I'll wear feathers on my head, paint my face to an Indian red
If you will be my little Indian maid

So I married the Big Chief's daughter, and we strayed across the border
I knew this love of ours would never fade
Then I soon became a pappy, and it sure did make me happy
A daughter of my little Indian maid

Soon pappooses came in numbers, white man wondered and they wondered
I proudly stood with feathers on my head
I got pappooses by the dozens and there's none of them my cousins
But glad I met that Indian maid and said

Pretty little Indian Cherokee, take a chance and marry me
Your Father is the Big Chief I believe
I'll wear feathers on my head, paint my face to an Indian red
If you will be my little Indian maid

Me Big Chief ug-ug, Me Big Chief ug-ug, Me Big Chief ug-ug, Me Big Chief ug-ug, Me Big Chief ug-ug, Me Big Chief ug-ug, Me Big Chief ug-ug

She's the Best I Ever Saw (George/Sullivan/McDuffy)

You ought to see my one-eyed Sal
She lives just down the road
A few front teeth are missing
And her legs are slightly bowed
She'll remind you of a bulldog
With her great big lantern jaw
And when it comes to swingin' an ax
She's the best I ever saw

She never wore a pair of shoes
Don't use no paint or such
And when it comes to courtin'
Well she just don't know much
For smell a polecat's lucky
If he only wins a draw
But when it comes to ringin' a hog
She's the best I ever saw

She says I've got to marry her
I guess there's no way out
I don't crave matrimony
But I'm her's beyond a doubt
She never had no schooling
But sure lays down the law
And when it comes to makin' me step
She's the best I ever saw

And when it comes to makin' me step
She's the best I ever saw

Sheepskin Corn (Hamblen)

Her lips are red as a gander's feet, in huckleberry time
Her eyes are brown as berries, like diamonds they do shine
Her lips are red as a rooster's comb, and her arms they love to twine
I'll tell you boys it's heaven, with that high-born gal of mine

Oh, sheepskin corn, and a wrinkle on a horn
We'll chain old rock, when the weather gets warm
Whose Who
Oh there's gonna be some loving in the swamp, on the bayou
Oh, sheepskin corn, and a wrinkle on the horn
We'll chain old rock when the weather gets warm

Her pappy doesn't like me, and he says that I'm too poor
To come a courtin' Susie Bell and knock upon her door
But then she takes her rifle down, we take old rock along
And head down for the bayou, just to hear this vaying song

Oh, sheepskin corn, and a wrinkle on a horn
We'll chain old rock, when the weather gets warm
Whose Who
Oh there's gonna be some loving in the swamp, on the bayou
Oh, sheepskin corn, and a wrinkle on the horn
We'll chain old rock when the weather gets warm

I saw a fortune teller, and she got the best of me
She said our youngins would be born, a swinging from a tree
They'll be as crazy as their pap, and loony like the moon
For a sport they'd go out hunting, just to chase that old racoon

Oh, sheepskin corn, and a wrinkle on a horn
We'll chain old rock, when the weather gets warm
Whose Who
Oh there's gonna be some loving in the swamp, on the bayou
Oh, sheepskin corn, and a wrinkle on the horn
We'll chain old rock when the weather gets warm

Take Them Cold Feet Outa My Back (Before I Kick You Out) (Sullivan/George)

Did you ever have to go to bed when the weather outside was cold
And sleep with your little brother, who was only six years old?
And just when you're about to sleep did you ever have to shout
Take them cold feet outa my back before I kick you out

Take them cold feet outa my back I'm freezing half to death
Take them cold feet outa my back so I can get my breath
I'm a shivering and a shaking and my knees am a knocking I'm froze beyond a doubt
Take them cold feet outa my back before I kick you out

When me and my wife were married she was the sweetest thing
She said she'd be my darling, I was happy as a king
There's just one thing that makes me wish I'd never bought that ring
That gal's got the biggest dog gone feet I've ever seen

Take them cold feet outa my back I'm freezing half to death
Take them cold feet outa my back so I can get my breath
I'm a shivering and a shaking and my knees am a knocking I'm froze beyond a doubt
Take them cold feet outa my back before I kick you out

Now gather 'round me fellers and take this fool's advice
Don't marry you a mama whose feet's as cold as ice
Cause if you do I'm tellin' you, you'll always have to shout
Take them cold feet outa my back before I kick you out

Take them cold feet outa my back I'm freezing half to death
Take them cold feet outa my back so I can get my breath
I'm a shivering and a shaking and my knees are am a knocking I'm froze beyond a doubt
Take them cold feet outa my back before I kick you out

There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea (Arr. Lonzo and Oscar)

There's a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a hole, there's a hole
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea

There's a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a hole, there's a hole
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea

There's a knot on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a knot on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a hole, there's a hole
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea

There's a frog on a knot on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a frog on a knot on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a hole, there's a hole
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea

There's a wart on a frog on a knot on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a wart on a frog on a knot on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a hole, there's a hole
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea

There's a hair on a wart on a frog on a knot on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a hair on a wart on a frog on a knot on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a hole, there's a hole
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea

There's a flea on a hair on a wart on a frog on a knot on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a flea on a hair on a wart on a frog on a knot on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a hole, there's a hole
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea

There's a chigger on a flea on a hair on a wart on a frog on a knot on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a chigger on a flea on a hair on a wart on a frog on a knot on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a hole, there's a hole
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea

There's a germ on a chigger on a flea on a hair on a wart on a frog on a knot on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a germ on a chigger on a flea on a hair on a wart on a frog on a knot on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a hole, there's a hole
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea

There's a danger on a germ on a chigger on a flea on a hair on a wart on a frog on a knot on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a danger on a germ on a chigger on a flea on a hair on a wart on a frog on a knot on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
There's a hole, there's no hole
We've done filled up the hole in the bottom of the sea

Tickle the Tom Cat's Tail (McDuffy/George/Sullivan)

I'm a country boy but I have more fun
I'm happy as I can be
I live on cornbread and black-eyed peas
And nothing worries me
I sleep out in a strack stack
And ev'ry time it hails
I sit a straddle of a barbed wire fence
And a tickle the tom cat's tail

I make my livin' with a grubbing hoe
As I grub I sing a song
I always wear my rabbit's foot
So how can things go wrong
And ev'ry day at evening
Out in the moonlight pale
I park somewhere on a holler stump
And a tickle the tom cat's tail

I like to ride a sapling down
Going fishing's lots of fun
I like my cornbread and 'lasses
If the cornbread's good and done
I guess I've tried most ev'rything
Even been rode on a rail
But the thing I like to do the best
Is a tickle the tom cat's tail

I'm a country boy but I have more fun
I'm happy as I can be
I live on cornbread and black-eyed peas
And nothing worries me
I sleep out in a strack stack
And ev'ry time it hails
I sit a straddle of a barbed wire fence
And a tickle the tom cat's tail

I sit a straddle of a barbed wire fence
And a tickle the tom cat's tail

Watching the Girls Go By (Davis)

Standing on the corner to watch the girls go by
Their little flirty walking and their great big flirty eyes

I don't want one short nor tall
Not any certain one
I want them all

The girls in old Chicargo are beautiful and sweet
But they will never date you unless they want to eat

I don't want one short nor tall
Not any certain one
I want them all

I saw the girls in Denver and oh do they have class
They'll make the boys whistle when they go walking past

I don't want one short nor tall
Not any certain one
I want them all

(I'll take everyone of em Lonzo aheeeeeee
You shouldn't be such a hog, leave me one, now sing
Just one or two)

The girls in Kansas City have mostly hair of red
They'll make you glad you're livin' or else wish you were dead

I don't want one short nor tall
Not any certain one
I want them all

In New Orleans the girls are thin just like a pumpkin vine
They'll give you lots of lovin' boys and really treat you fine

I don't want one short nor tall
Not any certain one
I want them all

Standin' on the corner to watch the girls go by
They'll make a man that's sixty think he's just twenty-five

I don't want one short nor tall
Not any certain one
I want them all

Not any certain
I want them all

When You Were Sweet Sixteen (Thornton)

When first I saw the love-light in your eyes
I dreamt the world held not but joy fer me
And even though we drifted fer apart
I never dream but what I dream of thee

I love you as I never loved before
Since first I met you on the village green
(The grass needs mowin')
Come to me or my dream of love is o’er
I love you fer I loved you, when you were sweet
When you were sweet sixteen

Last night I dreamt I held you in my arms
And once again you were my happy bride
I kissed you as I did in Auld Lang Syne
As to the church we wandered side by side

I loved you as I never loved before
Since first I met you on the village green
(Ain't they mowed that grass yet?)
Come to me or my dream of love is o’er
I love you fer I loved you, when you were sweet
(That's been a long time ain't it Lonzo?
It sure has Oscar
Yeah, ha! ha ha ha he)
When you were sweet sixteen

Who Pulled the Plug From the Jug (Dahle/Crowe/Fowler)

In the hills of Tennessee
Paw and Maw went on a spree
When they found the last drop gone
They just moaned till the break of dawn

Who pulled the plug from the jug?
Who made it go glug, glug, glug?
Now some low down guzzlin' hound
Done been here a sneakin' round
Who pulled the plug from the jug?

Zeke and Deak heard not a sound
But they took a look around
Then they learned that sure enough
Some darn fool had stole their stuff

Who pulled the plug from the jug?
Who made it go glug, glug, glug?
Now some low down guzzlin' hound
Done been here a sneakin' round
Who pulled the plug from the jug?

One fine day the Parson's came
Fer to wed old Jake and Mame
When 'twas time to celebrate
All hands yelled "we'll have to wait"

Who pulled the plug from the jug?
Who made it go glug, glug, glug?
Now some low down guzzlin' hound
Done been here a sneakin' round
Who pulled the plug from the jug?

Paw sick enough to die
Called to Maw to fetch some rye
None was left to ease his death
So he cried with his last breath

At the gates when Paw got there
He was asked "what makes you swear?"
Then poor paw in tears and glum
Cursed the bum that stole his rum
Who pulled the plug from the jug?
Who made it go glug, glug, glug?
Now some low down guzzlin' hound
Done been here a sneakin' round
Who pulled the plug from the jug?

You Blacked My Blue Eyes Once Too Often (George/Sullivan)

The first year that we were together
Oh our life was a soft feather bed
One day when an argument started
The coffee pot bounced off my head

You blacked my blue eyes once too often
You're too handy at breaking my jaw
You blacked my blue eyes once too often
And I'm going back home to my maw

One night we were dining and dancing
When a red headed gal liked my smile
Then you went to work with that bottle
I still show a scar when I smile

You blacked my blue eyes once too often
You're too handy at breaking my jaw
You blacked my blue eyes once too often
And I'm going back home to my maw

I guess you don't want me around here
For I don't mean a thing any more
Would you mind removing that ice pick
It's making my poor back so sore

Somehow I will try to forget you
But I know I'll remember instead
In my dreams I'll be dodging your saucers
That you sent flying straight at my head

You blacked my blue eyes once too often
You're too handy at breaking my jaw
You blacked my blue eyes once too often
And I'm going back home to my maw

You Won't Do It No More (George/Sullivan/Byrd)

Oh you left me here, you left me all alone
No one to cook my bread while you were gone

You won't do it no more
You won't do it no more
I'm a-telling you now
Baby won't do it no more

You made a fool of me, and then you turned me down
Sat and twittled my thumbs while you ran around

I won't do it no more
I won't do it no more
I'm a-telling you now
Baby won't do it no more

Come to me on your knees, said try me one more time
But I can't forgive, cause you're shooting me a line

I don't forgive no more
I don't forgive no more
I'm a-telling you now
Baby don't forgive no more

Came in from work, babe you ain't around
I go in the kitchen, find my bread burnt brown

I'll never do it no more
I'll never do it no more
I'm a-telling you now
Baby never do it no more

You paint your cheeks up red, then you powder your nose
Just where you're going, I'll never know

I don't care no more
I don't care no more
I'm a-telling you now
Baby don't care no more

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