I DON'T RECKON IT'LL HAPPEN AGAIN (IT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN FOR MONTHS)
As recorded by Uncle Dave Macon and His Fruit Jar Drinkers
and Bill Chitwood & His Georgia Mountaineers

(Lyrics in brackets are included in Bill Chitwood's version only. Braces with (?) are words I couldn't understand for sure and had to guess at. Fifth verse included in Uncle Dave's version only)

Susie is my cousin, and that's the gospel truth
[There's] three more in the family, Rebekah, Jane and Ruth
I'll tell you [bout] the trouble she had with William Rider
Took the poor girl out [one night] and treated her and gave her {sour cider (?)}
But I don't reckon it'll happen again for months and months and months
But I don't reckon it'll happen again for months and months and months

Sue she went to Sunday School with that Rider man
When the preacher went to preach, she shoo-flied with her fan
When they passed the plate around, she would not give her mite
She had lost her hearing from a gallon {he provide (?)}
But I don't reckon it'll happen again for months and months and months
But I don't reckon it'll happen again for months and months and months

Sue she went to supper, she was glad she went
She ate steak fried in butter, poor Billy hadn't a cent
Ah, you William Rider, with cider he did load her
Blew the fool drink like a mule and died with the hydropho-ba
But I don't reckon it'll happen again for months and months and months
But I don't reckon it'll happen again for months and months and months

An Irishman went to turn an elephant around
The elephant took its trunk and slapped old Paddy down
The Irishman said, "You great big ugly brute,
If I knew which end your head was on, I'd job you in the snoot."
But I don't reckon it'll happen again for months and months and months
But I don't reckon it'll happen again for months and months and months

They wanted the highway up to Woodsbury Pike
They thought it was going to Hall Hill Road and they all got on a hike
Some was mad and some was glad and some took some offense
But everybody raised a little sand when they had to move the fence
But I don't reckon it'll happen again for months and months and months
But I don't reckon it'll happen again for months and months and months

I went to bed the other night and dreamed that I was dead
I went right up to the pearly gates and to Saint Peter said
"I just came up from Knoxville," He says "I do declare,
Come right on in you are the first that ever came from there."
But I don't reckon it'll happen again for months and months and months
But I don't reckon it'll happen again for months and months and months

Source: Transcribed 2002 from Honking Duck
Vocalion 15032 Side B Issued: May 1925. Title: "I Don't Reckon It'll Happen Again"
Artist: Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers

and

http://www.honkingduck.com/BAZ/baz_side.php?meth=a&letter=c&auid=1078&cuid=20309B
Okeh 45110 Side B Issued: June 1927. Title: It Won't Happen Again for Months
Artist: Bill Chitwood & His Georgia Mountaineers