Lyr Req: I Don't Know Gee from Haw (Grandpa Jones)

Subject: Lyr Add: I DON'T KNOW GEE FROM HAW (Grandpa Jones)
From: Melissa
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 11:31 PM

This is how my ears transcribe it. I don't have the cd case..maybe someone else can come up with attribution info
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I DON'T KNOW GEE FROM HAW
Grandpa Jones

If they put me in the jail
I wouldn't know how to go my bail
have to get a lawyer to figure out the law
'cause I don't know gee from haw

CH
I don't know gee from haw
I wish I had some knowledge
It aint no fun being dumb
I wish I'd gone to college

I believe my sweetie's cheating on me
tried every way to find out you see
I talked to her ma, talked to her pa
but I don't know gee from haw

CH

Married a little gal and I got a divorce
married her ma and it made things worse
I think I'll marry her old grandma
'cause I don't know gee from haw

CH

I'd spin a rope but I don't know how
work on a farm but I can't milk a cow
try to saw a log with an old hacksaw
but I don't know gee from haw

CH

That's why people impose on me
'cause I'm so doggone dumb you see
should have taken a lesson or two
so I could learn just what to do

CH
..it aint no fun being dumb, I wish I'd stayed in college

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Don't Know Gee from Haw (Grandpa Jones)
From: GUEST,DWR
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 10:51 PM

It's available from emusic, track 14 at this address.

http://www.emusic.com/album/Grandpa-Jones-28-Greatest-Hits-MP3-Download/11592868.html

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Don't Know Gee from Haw (Grandpa Jo
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 01:17 PM

Refreshing a 10-year-old request.

Subject: RE: I Don't Know Gee From Haw
From: puzzled
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 05:56 PM

Sorry don't know the tune but. . . When working with a pulling horse Gee is hollered when you want the horse to pull right. Haw is hollered when you want the horse to pull left.
there are a number of folks around here that still keep and use (mostly for tourists, parades, festival etc.) buckboards and wagons pulled by horses. And a few (very few) that still plow and work fields with horses.
There is even a need for drivers. People who know how to harness the animals and care for them as well as drive them. There aren't a whole lot of us left.

Subject: I Don't Know Gee From Haw
From: Andy Leader
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 04:35 PM

I'm looking for a song recorded many years ago by Grandpa Jones called "I Don't Know Gee From Haw". Any words and/or tune would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Andy