TRAVELIN' MAN
As sung by Pink Anderson on "Blues Legend" and on "Medicine Show Man"

1. I just want tell you 'bout a man named Coon; his home was in Tennessee.
He made his livin' stealin' chickens, and everything that he could see.
That pop-eyed man he run so fast, his feet couldn't stay in the road.
When a freight train passed, no matter how fast, he'd always get on boa'd.

CHORUS: He was a travelin' man; he cert'nly was a travelin' man.
He's one o' the trav'lin'est men was ever in the land.
He traveled, and known for miles around.
He didn't get caught, didn't give up till the police shot him down.

2. Well, the police hired him a automobile, o' purpose to chase ol' Coon.
He run him from six o'clock in the mornin' till seven in the afternoon.
That pop-eyed man he run so fast, till fire came from his heel.
He burned up the cotton and he scorched the corn; he cut a road through the farmer's field.

3. Well, the police shot him with a rifle, and the bullet went th'ough his head.
All the people they came from miles around to see the man was dead.
They telegramed down south to his mother; she's all carried away in tears.
She walked in the house, opened up the coffin lid, and that fool had disappeared.

4. This man was on the Titanic ship and it was sinkin' down,
Sitting out on a ... with his head hung down.
When this boy jumped overboa'd, ev'rybody said he was a fool,
And about three minutes after that, he was shooting dice over in Liverpool.

5. This boy he went to the spring one day to get a pail o' water.
The distance the rascal had to go was about two miles and a quarter.
He got then, got his water; when he started back, he stumbled and fell down,
But he went to the house and got him another bucket, caught the water 'fore it hit the ground.