Key: F major
Verse 1
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I just want to
tell you about a man named
Coon.
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His home was in
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Tennessee.
He made his living stealing chickens and
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everything that he could see.
That
Popeye the man, he'd run so fast,
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his feet could have stayed in the road.
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On a freight train pass, no matter how fast,
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he'd always get on the boat.
He was a traveling man,
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Sid was a traveling man.
He's one of the travelest
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men was ever in the land.
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He traveled, and known from all around.
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He didn't get caught, didn't give up,
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till the police shot him down.
Well, the police hired him an automobile,
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a pub with a chase -hole crew.
He runnin' from six o 'clock in the
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mornin' till seven in the afternoon
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That
Popeye man, he run so fast a
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fire came from his heel
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He burn up the cotton and
he scorched the corn
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He cut a road through the farmer's field
He said I'm a traveling man
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Said I'm a traveling man
The traveler's man was
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a devil in the land
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He'd travel and known
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some miles around
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But he didn't give up till the police
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shot him down
While the police shot him with a rifle and a bullet
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went through his head, all the people
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that came from miles around to see the man was dead,
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the telegram down south says,
Mother,
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she's all carried away in tears.
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She walked in the house and opened up the
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coffin lid and that fool had disappeared.
He said I'm a traveling man,
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he said I'm a traveling man
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The travelest man was ever in the land
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He traveled and known for miles around
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But he didn't get caught, didn't give up
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Till that police shot him down
This man was on the
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Titanic ship, and it was sinking down,
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sitting out on a tile with his head hung down.
When this boy jumped overboard,
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everybody said he was a fool.
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And about three minutes after that,
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he was shooting dice over in
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Liverpool.
He said, a traveling man's son
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was a dowry man.
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Traveling land, whatever in the land.
He traveled, boys,
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he was known from mile to round.
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He didn't get caught, didn't give up,
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till the police shot him down.
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This boy he went to the spring one
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day to get a pail of water.
The distance the
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rascal had to go was about
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two miles and a quarter.
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He got there and got a water
when he started back.
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He stumbled and fell down,
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but he went to the house and got
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up another bucket,
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caught the water before it hit the ground.
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Now you know he was a
Travelling man, that
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Sidney was a travelling man.
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Talk about him, man.
Traveller's man,
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was never in the land.
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You know he'd travel.
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Boy, he was known from mile around.
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He didn't get caught, didn't give up,
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till that police shot him down.
you
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