Lyrics copied from http://www.m-bettencourt.com/full/DOC/color.doc, with a few corrections by me, based on the sound file found at http://www.angelfire.com/in4/jim640.

CORNBREAD AND BUTTER BEANS

CHORUS:
Cornbread and butter beans and you across the table,
Eating beans and making love as long as I am able,
Hoeing corn and cotton, too, and when the day is over,
Ride a mule, a crazy fool, and love again all over.

Goodbye. Don't you cry. I'm going to Lou'siana,
Buy a dog and a big fat hog and marry Suzy Anna.
Sing-song, ding-dong, gonna take a trip to China,
Cornbread and butter beans, and there to Carolina. CHORUS

Wearing shoes and drinking booze is going against the Bible.
A necktie will make you die and cause you lots of trouble.
Streetcars and whiskey bars and kissing pretty women,
Whoa, man, that's the end of a terrible beginning. CHORUS

Can't read and don't care and education's awful.
Raising heck and writing checks, that ought to be unlawful.
Silk hose and pretty clothes are just a waste of money.
I can see how glad you'll be to marry me, my honey. CHORUS


[As sung by the Carolina Sunshine Trio on the various-artists compilation "WPAQ: Voice of the Blue Ridge Mountains," Rounder CD #404, 1999.]