Here's the version from Traditional American Folk Songs from the Frank & Anne Warner Collection, #182, pp. 411-412
As stated above, the Warners' informant, Tom P. Smith insisted that the song should NOT be played to the tune of "Turkey in the Straw."


THE OLD GEEZER

O there was an old geezer and he had a wooden leg,
And he had no tobacco, but tobacco he would beg.
Another old geezer, he had a wooden crutch;
He always had tobacco, but he never had much.

Said geezer number one, "Won't you give me a chew?"
Said geezer number two, "I'll be durned if I do!
If you'll always save your money and not throw away your rocks,
You will always have tobacco in your old tobacco box."

singer: Tom P. Smith, 1949

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