Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Odetta
Canonical path: /odetta/water-boy
Related lyric paths: 6
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Water Boy
Read Water Boy lyrics by Odetta on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Water Boy
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There ain't no hammer
That's on a this mountain
That ring like mine boy
That ring like mine
I'm gonna bust this rock boy
From here to the Macon
All the way to the jail boy
All the way to the jail
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Odetta performs "Water Boy", and this lyric page sits inside the Odetta catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to Don't Think Twice It's All Right and Yonder Come The Blues with a short reason for opening each page next.
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