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Thread #97813   Message #1929264
Posted By: Richie
07-Jan-07 - 12:45 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Alabama Bound & Don't You Leave Me Here
Subject: Lyr Add: PREACHER GOT DRUNK ...(Tennessee Ramblers
PREACHER GOT DRUNK

You can listen here:http://www.juneberry78s.com/otmsampler/otmsampta.html
Scroll down to: Preacher Got Drunk; Last two lines of 2nd Chorus are wrong

The Preacher Got Drunk And Throwed His Bible Down- Tennessee Ramblers
1928 recording

(Fiddle solo; banjo strummed)

Oh the preacher got drunk
He throwed his Bible down
Told his congregation that he's
Alabama bound.

CHORUS: Alabama bound,
Alabama bound
If that train breaks down
I've got a mule to ride. (Hee-haw hee-haw)

I went to the levee,
There I learned to skin.
Well I made good money,
But I throwed it in.

CHORUS: Alabama bound,
Alabama bound
If that train breaks down
I've got a mule to ride. (Hee-haw hee-haw)

(Fiddle solo; banjo strummed)

If your woman leaves you,
Don't you wear no black.
One of these cold frosty mornings,
She'll come hobblin' back.

CHORUS: Alabama bound,
Alabama bound.
If that train breaks down
I've got a mule to ride.
Got a mule to ride,
Got a mule to ride.
*And I don't ask nothing
For a mule to ride.

Well I've had a good time,
That I'll agree.
But you see what booze,
Has done for me.

CHORUS: Alabama bound,
Alabama bound
If that train breaks down
I've got a mule to ride. (Hee-haw hee-haw)

*Lyrics unclear last two lines.