Jersey City

Cat. #0171 (MFH #315) - As sung by Mr. Fred Smith, Bentonville, Arkansas on June 23, 1958

VERSE 1
I was born in Jersey City
In Chicago, near th South
And that's th very reason why
My voice is in my mouth

VERSE 2
T'was a hot and frosty evening
Th wind was full of air
There's people dying this year
Who never dyed their hair

VERSE 3
My wife she had th headache
She had it again and again
I throwed her thru th window
Jest to take away th pain

VERSE 4
A man pulled up th river
He pulled up by th roots
A miser can't hide money
In ice an' cowhide boots

VERSE 5
The oyster plant is in a stew
Th cowslip ate th buttercup
Th cabbage got so far ahead
Th tomato could'nt catch up

VERSE 6
I laid down in th river
Because it had a bed
I took a sheet of water
And pulled it over my head

VERSE 7
My Father had a great big steer
He simply was amense
He ran his horns clean thru my pants
And throwed me o'er the fence

VERSE 8
He ran me here, he ran me there
He ran me to Washington
There I received th pension
For th battle of bull run

VERSE 9
I been taking lectric bitters
To set my liver at right
And I hain't been sick fer eight weeks since
We've had electric lights

VERSE 10
A lady by a sewer
And by a sewer she died
And at the corners inquest
It was said, was sewercide

VERSE 11
Th crows are making crowbars
Th hayroots making hay
And th bumblebees are making bums
Fer ta-ra-boom-de-a