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John Hartford - Let Him Go on, Mama lyrics
Well he likes black coffee, fried eggs and a well done T-bone steak He like a red dress and pearly white teeth and the flash of apretty brown leg back in the '30s, you never had it made. He's an engineer over on the Ohio river runnin in the Pittsburgh trade At the inspection office in Louisville at a desk for a vvery short time and he played in a band on two different boats working for the Strackfus line And long ago he smoked reefer and he even made home brew and the reefer came in through New Orleans back before World War II refrain He's just a fellow worked on the river all his life by a paddle wheel You say he's old fashioned Well that ain't no big deal Well it's too think to navigate and it's to thin to plow so let him go on mama don't put him down for it now You're as pretty as he is ugly he's the happiest man alive you got him into beliveing that old men are back in style you see these oysters benville in this baked potato skin I eat 'em so I can grow up to be an old man just like him repeat refrain Well he suts there an smokes an old I-bolt cigar Says he doesn't miss it at all but he still goes out an dmakes afew trips in the summer and thenin the fall all the railroad train, the bus and planes been takin up all the slack he's been watching all those river towns slowly turn their backs. repeat refrain Well he comes from a real old-time way of life he had to fight to just learn how and he might even hav evoted for Nixon once but I'm sure he sees that now (We're missing the rest - any one?) |
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