She promised to meet me when the clock struck twenty-three
Down at the stockyard about a mile and a half away
Where picked feets and hog-heads go nineteen cents a pound
She's my freckle-faced consumptive Sara Jane

Oh she's my daisy, she's black-eyed and crazy
The sweetest girl I thought I ever saw
Now her breath smells sweet, but I'd rather smell her feet
She's my freckle-faced consumptive Sara Jane

I'm the man rode the mule around the world
I'm the man rode the mule around the world
I rode in Noah's ark, I'm as happy as a lark
I'm the man rode the mule around the world

I was born four thousand years ago
And there's nothing on this earth I do not know
I saw Moses on the water fighting Pharaoh and his armies
And I can whip the man that says it isn't so

I'm the man rode the mule around the world
I'm the man rode the mule around the world
I rode in Noah's ark, and I'm happy as a lark
I'm the man rode the mule around the world

I saw Satan when he searched the garden o'er
I saw Satan when he searched the garden o'er
The apple they were eating, through the bushes I was peeping
I can prove that I'm the man that ate the core

I'm the man rode the mule around the world
I'm the man rode the mule around the world
I rode in Noah's ark, and I'm happy as a lark
I'm the man rode the mule around the world

I'm a finely educated man
And there's things in my brain that I have planned
Now I've been on earth too long, and I've learned to sing a song
That old Abraham and Jacob used to sing

I'm the man rode the mule around the world
I'm the man rode the mule around the world
I rode in Noah's ark, he surrounded me with a shark
I'm the man rode the mule around the world

I'm the man rode the mule around the world
I'm the man rode the mule around the world
I rode up to the line and I fell up against a pine
I'm the man rode the mule around the world