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Lyr Add: Cornbread, 'Lasses and Sassafras Tea

02 Oct 02 - 04:27 PM (#795739)
Subject: Lyr Add: Cornbread, 'Lasses and Sassafras Tea
From: GUEST,Peter J. Gossett

Cornbread, 'Lasses and Sassafras Tea by Lonzo and Oscar with their Winston County Pea Pickers (By: Lloyd George/Roland Sullivan)

Come here girls and listen to my noise
Don't you marry an Arkansas boy
Marry a feller from Tennessee eat
Cornbread and 'lasses and sassafras tea
Cornbread and 'lasses and sassafras tea

Traveled all over this whole wide world
Eat a lotta cookin' from a lotta pretty girls
But there's none like Tennessee
With cornbread and 'lasses and sassafras tea
Cornbread 'lasses and sassafras tea

Grandpa Snazzy lives on the hill
He ain't never died and I guess he never will
The neighbors all around say he's ninety three
The old man's happy as he can be eatin'
Cornbread 'lasses and sassafras tea
Cornbread 'lasses and sassafras tea

Old Uncle Jim on his dyin' bed
He called 'em all around and then he said
My last request just let it be
Cornbread 'lasses and sassafras tea
Cornbread 'lasses and sassafras tea

Come here girls and listen to my noise
Don't you marry an Arkansas boy
Marry a feller from Tennessee eat
Cornbread and 'lasses and sassafras tea
Cornbread and 'lasses and sassafras tea

Cornbread and 'lasses and sassafras tea