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Well way down yonder on Candy Creek |
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I whittled out a fiddle from a wagon seat. |
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I tune fiddle and I rub my bow. |
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Play a little tune wherever I go. |
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Sleepy-eyed John, you better get yore britches on |
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Sleepy-eyed John better tie your shoe. |
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Sleepy-eyed John, you better goet your britches on. |
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Try to get to heaven 'for the devil gets to you. |
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Now Sleepy-eyed John he had a wooden leg. |
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The wooden leg was nothing but a little wooden peg. |
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With one shoe off and one shoe on |
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Do the double-shuffle 'till the cows come home. |
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Over the hickory and down the pine |
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The racoon left and the old hound whined. |
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John said 'Sick 'em', and the racoon left. |
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They crossed Green River in a minute and a half. |
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I took 20 dollars for to build a fence. |
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I took my money and I ain't worked since. |
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I sold my buggy and I sold my plow. |
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I wouldn't take a dollar for my journey now. |
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