The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #5183   Message #592189
Posted By: raredance
14-Nov-01 - 12:12 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Turkey in the Straw
Subject: RE: Desparate!!!
Not what EJ wanted, but couldn't pass up the opportunity to add more verses.

O, his horse went dead, and his mule went lame,
And he lost six cows; what a measly shame!
Then a hurricane came on a summer's day
And blew the house where he lived away.

An earthquake came, when this was gone
And swallowed up the land that the house stood on:
Then the tax collector camae around,
And charged him up with a hole in the ground.

Hole in the ground, te-he-he!
But he never frowned! No siree!
He put on a smile all of the while,
For hes a good Leaguer, and that's their style.

Farmer Jones went out in a boat,
The boat turned over, and we threw him a rope;
Said Farmer Jones: "Well, I can't swim,
But I'll be drowned first before I'll be roped in.

A little boy on his way from school
Saw a dollar bill at the foot of a mule;
He stooped right down as sly as a mouse,
Funeral next day at the little boy's house.

I once had a girl down in Mobile
She had a face like a lemon peel.
She had a wart on the end of her chin;
She said it was a dimple, but a dimple turns in.

source same as I used above.

rich r