The Johnson Boys chords by The Weavers

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Verse 1
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Johnson Boys was
raised in the ashes
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Didn't know how to court a maid
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Turn their backs and hide their faces
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Sight of a pretty girl makes 'em afraid
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Sight of a pretty girl makes 'em afraid
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Sight of a pretty girl makes 'em afraid
Sight of a pretty girl makes 'em afraid
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Sight of a pretty girl makes
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'em afraid

Verse 2
Johnson Boys they come a- courting
Coon creek girls so pretty
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and sweet
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They couldn't make no conversation
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Didn't know where to put their feet
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Didn't know where to
put their feet
They didn't know where to
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put their feet
They didn't know where
to put their feet
They didn't know where
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to put their feet

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Verse 3
Johnson Boys they went a- courting
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Riding in a Chevrolet
They come home broke and a- walking
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And they had no money
for to pay their way
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Had no money for to pay their way
They had no money for to pay their way
Had no money for to pay their way
They had no money for to
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pay their way

Verse 4
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Johnson Boys eat peas and a- honey
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They have done it all of their life
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Makes the peas taste mighty funny
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But it keeps them on the knife
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But it keeps them on the knife
But it keeps them on the knife
But it keeps them on the knife

Verse 5
But it keeps them on the knife
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Johnson Boys will never
get a- married
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They'll live single all of their life
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They're too scared to pop the question
There ain't no woman
that'll be their wife
Ain't no woman that'll
be their wife
There ain't no woman
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that'll be their wife
Ain't no woman that'll
be their wife
There ain't no woman
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that'll be their wife
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Shame, shame on the Johnson Boys