Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Bill Monroe
Canonical path: /bill-monroe/old-joe-clark
Related lyric paths: 6
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Old Joe Clark
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Old Joe Clark
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Farethee well Old Joe Clark
Farethee well I say
Farethe well Old Joe Clark
I'm bound go go away
I will not go to Old Joe's house
I'll tell ya the reason why
Every floor in Old Joes's house
Is filled with chicken pie
Old Joe Clark he did take sick
And what do ya think ailed him?
He drank a churn of butter milk
And then his stomach failed him
I will not marry an old maid
And I'll tell ya the reason why
Her neck's so long and stringy boys
I'm afraid she'll never die
Old Joe Clark he did get drunk
And he sat down to his supper
He leaned over at the dinner table
And stoved his nose in the butter
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Bill Monroe performs "Old Joe Clark", and this lyric page sits inside the Bill Monroe catalog on LyroVerse.
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