Old Joe Clark

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Dan D. Dirges performs the classic traditional folk song, Old Joe Clark.

lyrics

Old Joe Clark

Old Joe Clark's a fine old man
Tell you the reason why
He keeps good likker 'round his house
that Good old Rock and Rye---------

Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark
Fare thee well, I say
Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark
I'm a going away------

Old Joe Clark, the preacher's son
Preached all over the plain
The only text he ever knew
Was High, low, Jack and the game

Old Joe Clark he had a mule
His name was Morgan Brown
And every tooth in that mule's head
Was sixteen inches around---------

Old Joe Clark had a yellow cat
She would neither sing or pray
She stuck her nose in the butermilk jar
And washed her sins away

Old Joe Clark he had a house
Fifteen stories high
And every story in that house
Was filled with chicken pie-----------

I went down to Old Joe's house
He invited me to supper
I stumped my toe on the table leg
And stuck my nose in the butter

Now I wouldn't marry a widder
Tell you the reason why
She'd have so many children
They'd make those biscuits fly------------

Sixteen horses in my team
The leaders they are blind
And every time the sun goes down
There's a pretty girl on my mind

Eighteen miles of mountain road
And fifteen miles of sand
If ever travel this road again
I'll be a married man-----------