Key: F major•
Verse 1
I want you to listen to this song.
When I was about your size,
there's an old fella
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And he told me that it was sure the truth.
And I used to say,
I don't believe it is now, is it?
and see if you don't think
he was kidding me just a little bit.
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Mr. Darby lived down on the creek
and when he told a tale
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Every manor in the creek
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We used to sit with open mouths
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About the things when he was young
before us boys was born
Now wasn't he a -biggin' girls,
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Now wasn't he a -beggin' boys
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before they cut him down?
about that awful big sheep
My granddad had a big old sheep
I still can hear him say
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One of the finest rams, yes sir,
that ever was fed on hay
He had four legs to walk with
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And every foot that he had
would cover an acre of land
Wasn't he a -biggin', boys?
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Now, wasn't he a -biggin', boys,
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Well, the wool that growed
upon his back
reached down to the ground
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And when they cut it off in the spring
it would weigh 10 ,000 pounds
And the wool that growed
up on his neck
reached up to the sky
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An d the hawks would
build their nest in it
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cause they heard the little ones cry
Now wasn't he a biggun, boys?
Now wasn't he a biggun, boys?
I don't quite believe that myself,
do you now?
Oh, before they cut him down
Now the butcher man that cut his throat
Was washed away in the flood
Ah, wasn't he a -beggin' boys
Wasn't he a -beggin' girls
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Wasn't he a -beggin' boys
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Before they cut him down
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TunerE A D G B E
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