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Johnny Horton - Sleepy-Eyed John Lyrics

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  • Well way down yonder on Candy Creek
  • I whittled out a fiddle from a wagon seat.
  • I tune fiddle and I rub my bow.
  • Play a little tune wherever I go.
  • (chorus)
  • Sleepy-eyed John, you better get yore britches on
  • Sleepy-eyed John better tie your shoe.
  • Sleepy-eyed John, you better goet your britches on.
  • Try to get to heaven 'for the devil gets to you.
  • Now Sleepy-eyed John he had a wooden leg.
  • The wooden leg was nothing but a little wooden peg.
  • With one shoe off and one shoe on
  • Do the double-shuffle 'till the cows come home.
  • chorus
  • Over the hickory and down the pine
  • The racoon left and the old hound whined.
  • John said 'Sick 'em', and the racoon left.
  • They crossed Green River in a minute and a half.
  • chorus
  • I took 20 dollars for to build a fence.
  • I took my money and I ain't worked since.
  • I sold my buggy and I sold my plow.
  • I wouldn't take a dollar for my journey now.
  • chorus

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