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Thread #53732 Message #3732410
Posted By: GUEST,Bob Coltman
22-Aug-15 - 01:54 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: I Don't Reckon It'll Happen Again
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: I Don't Reckon It'll Happen Again
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.