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GUEST,Bob Coltman Lyr Add: I Don't Reckon It'll Happen Again (16) RE: Lyr Add: I Don't Reckon It'll Happen Again 22 Aug 15


The Fiddlin' John Carson version is on YouTube, surface rough, some words questionable. Here's what I hear [or can't, in brackets]:

IT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN FOR A HUNDRED YEARS TO COME
Fiddlin' John Carson.   
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ9Quyuu-HI

Oh, Adam was the first man, he led a lonely life,
He broke him up a bed slat, [used it for?] his wife,

CHO        Well, that won't happen again for a hundred years to come,
        I don't reckon it'll happen again for a hundred years to come.

Oh, Eve [was fond of?] apple[s], [said?] she had to take a bite.
Two angels with a [flamin' ?] sword chased her out of sight,

Ol' Jonah was a sailor, so runs the Bible tale,
He sailed the South Atlantic, got quarters in a whale,

Oh, Jonah found his quarters, they weren't the very best,
Ol' Jonah pressed the button, the whale it did the rest,

I had a dream the other night, I dreamt that I was dead,
Pulled the Pearly Gates away, an' to Saint Peter said,
I just came in from Atlanta, he says, I do declare
Walk right in, you're the first man that's ever come from there.


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