Lyr Add: Tennessee Border (Jimmy Work)

Subject: Lyr Add: TENNESSEE BORDER (Jimmy Work)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 10:53 PM

You can hear Red Foley's recording of this song at The Record Lady's All-Time Country Favorites, Real Country Page 8.

TENNESSEE BORDER
(Jimmy Work)

Her eyes were blue. Her hair was auburn.
Her smile was like an angel dear.
She was her daddy's only daughter
On the Tennessee border.

CHORUS: One night I took a ride just across the line.
I picked her up in a pick-up truck and she broke this heart of mine.
Her mother said, "No, she's my only daughter."
But we got married on the Tennessee border.

The roses were bloomin' on the border.
The moon was shining from above.
I fell in love the night I saw her
On the Tennessee border. CHORUS

[Recorded by Red Foley (1949), by Jimmy Work (1959), Tennessee Ernie Ford, Hank Williams, and others.]

Subject: Lyr Add: TENNESSEE BORDER NO. 2 (Homer & Jethro)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 10:56 PM

OK, I confess. Again I posted a song just so I could post the parody. (A parody is much more enjoyable when you know the original, don't you think?)

Transcribed from the sound file at The Record Lady's All-Time Country Favorites, Requests Page 8.

TENNESSEE BORDER NO. 2
(As sung by Homer & Jethro)

Her eyes was red. Her name was Helen.
Her head looked like a watermelon.
Her hair was long. She had a Toni.
Her neck looked like a roll o' baloney.

Her teeth stuck out so far, she didn't have much sense.
She could gnaw a ear o' corn right through a picket fence.
Our marriage license cost a quarter
On the Tennessee border.

One night I took her out to see what we could see.
It's then I saw her husband, and he stood six foot three.
He had brass knuckles all made to order.
Now my teeth are scattered on the Tennessee border.

Her hair was red. Her name was Hanner.
Her nose looked like a big bananer.
She weighed so much he had some trouble.
He thought that he was seein' double.

He put his arm around her and he tried to hug her,
But he couldn't get close enough 'cause she had too much blubber.
She was too fat. He couldn't court 'er.
Now she wears a girdle around her Tennessee border.

One night I took her out just across the line.
She stubbed her toe and fell in a barrel of turpentine.
Young man, young man, where is my daughter?
Well, the last time I see'd her, she was tearin' across the Tennessee border.

[Recorded by Homer & Jethro, also by Ernest Tubb and Red Foley!]