Some Songs I'll Sing

Cat. #0409 (MFH #587) - As sung by Mrs. Elsie Jones, Summers, Arkansas on September 23, 1959

VERSE 1
Some songs I'll sing
Some jokes I'll tell
All about a doctor
Well, he fell in th well
When he fell, 'e broke his collar bone
Tend to th sick an' let th well alone

VERSE 2
Two Jews were out a riding
In a leaky boat
Boat begin to sink
An' she would not float
Jest let 'er sink t' th bottom of th sea
I say, let 'er sink, she don't belong to me

VERSE 3
I've got a girl
In Boston town
She weighs about four hondred pound
In a shoe store she went one day
Shoe clerk faded dead away

VERSE 4
Says, you go home
An' soak your feet
In alumn water
About one week
When your feet gets thin come back again
I'll fit ya with th box that th shoes come in

VERSE 5
Last night as I lay sleeping
Upon my bed
My mouth open big, wide
A big woft rat jumped in my mouth
I coughed an' I coughed an' I could'nt get 'im out

VERSE 6
Laid a piece of cheese
Upon my chin
A big tom cat
Set awaiting for 'im
Well, th cat made a leap an' th rat left store
Swoll'd rat, cat, cheese an' all