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Lyr/Chords Req: The Little Paper boy

04 Sep 99 - 05:32 PM (#111488)
Subject: The Little Paper boy
From: wlgteed@glinx.com

Looking for lyrics and chords for the little paper boy, sung by Hank Williams, an old song.


04 Sep 99 - 06:48 PM (#111501)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Little Paper boy
From: Wolfgang

I know you want more, but here's all I have found:
Out on the corner, standing so bold,
stood a little paperboy, so ragged and cold.
Perhaps that helps someone to remember more.

Wolfgang


04 Sep 99 - 07:29 PM (#111509)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Little Paper boy
From: Joe Offer

Click here for a site with all sorts of Hank Williams lyrics and information - but no "Little Paper Boy." I'll send a message to our resident anonymous Hank Williams expert. If he can't come through for you, nobody can.
-Joe Offer-


04 Sep 99 - 10:58 PM (#111547)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Little Paper boy
From: Gene

Sounds about like this to me...

THE LITTLE PAPER BOY
Recorded by: Hank Williams, Sr.
Written by: Johnny Wright & Jack Anglin

[1]=C/[5]=G

[1] Out on the corner [5] standin' so bold
The Little Paper Boy, so hungry and [1] cold
And as the crowd [5] came passin' by
These words he said, with tears in his [1] eyes.

CHORUS
[1] Please buy a [5] paper from me
So I can get me somethin' to [1] eat
My clothes are ragged, no [5] shoes on my feet
Said the Little Paper Boy, there on the [1] street.

Out in this cold, wide world all alone
I have no place on this earth to call home
I haven't had the chance that other kids had
I have no mother nor even a dad.

CHORUS

Early next morning as the crowd passed by
The little boy was gone and they wondered why
They started searchin' and then found him dead
He died with the papers under his head.

No one was there, his body to claim
There he was lying, but he felt no pain
Now he has gone up to heaven, we know
The Little Paper Boy, who died in the snow.

SOURCE: HANK WILLIAMS, SR
RARE TAKES AND RADIO CUTS
1984 PolyGram Records 823 698-1-Y-1


05 Sep 99 - 03:08 AM (#111580)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Little Paper boy
From: Joe Offer

Thanks for the lyrics, Gene. Gee, the paperboy should have gotten together with the Little Match Girl.
-Joe-


05 Sep 99 - 08:56 AM (#111602)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Little Paper boy
From: Gail

Thanks Gene, my brother-in-law will be most appreciative!