Tanner's Boarding House

歌詞

I'm just a country fellow from way out in the sticks I have a lot of trouble, I get a lot of kicks I raise my cotton and corn, I never owned a Ford I run the boardin' house where the folks don't pay no board My boardin' house, my boardin' house, it sits up on the hill Now come along and join us all, and you're welcome if you will Eat corn bread and 'taters, too, and drink out of a gourd My boardin' house, my boardin' house, where the folks don't pay no board "Great Goodness! ha ha ha ha ha" There is a lot of people, sometimes they make me blue They stay with me all the summer, and spend the winter, too They brag about how well they live when they are up in town But when my grocery bill comes due, they never are around "Great Goodness! ha ha ha ha ha" My boardin' house, my boardin' house, it sits up on the hill Now come along and join us all, and you're welcome if you will Eat corn bread and 'taters, too, and drink out of a gourd My boardin' house, my boardin' house, where the folks don't pay no board Hunt and fish all day 'til they're out of breath Come home to supper, perished 'most to death Eat my ham and middlin's too, they certainly have suffish And rush right on off to bed, and never wash a dish "Great Goodness! ha ha ha ha ha" My boardin' house, my boardin' house, it sits up on the hill Now come along and join us all, and you're welcome if you will Eat corn bread and 'taters, too, and drink out of a gourd My boardin' house, my boardin' house, where the folks don't pay no board "By Jesus, I'm gone"