《George Gudger’s Overalls》歌词

歌曲： George Gudger’s Overalls

所属专辑：The Definitive

歌手： Doc Watson

时长： 03:26

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George Gudger's Overalls - Doc Watson[00:00:00]

As I walked out one mornin'[00:00:06]

In the Alabama chill [00:00:08]

I saw some old friends hangin'[00:00:12]

From a tree on Hobie's Hill [00:00:15]

By their tattered legs[00:00:19]

They dangled drippin' down along the spine [00:00:20]

It was old George Gudger's overalls[00:00:25]

A-drying on the line [00:00:28]

George Gudger he's an honest cuss [00:00:33]

And he likes to work his land [00:00:36]

I'd long admired them overalls[00:00:39]

That I held there in my hand [00:00:42]

My brand new pair was stiffer[00:00:45]

Than a starched-up Sunday suit [00:00:48]

But his could walk 'round by themselves[00:00:51]

And plow the corn to boot [00:00:55]

Now the knees looked almost bloody[00:00:59]

From the red Hale County clay [00:01:02]

George Gudger's debts and prayers had kept him[00:01:05]

Kneelin' down all day [00:01:09]

Old George owes me money [00:01:14]

But I owe him my respect [00:01:16]

If these overalls will fit me [00:01:20]

Boy I'll forget about his debt [00:01:22]

I stepped in to them big old legs like fallin[00:01:32]

Down a mine [00:01:36]

Then I heard a ragged chuckle [00:01:38]

And there stood old George behind [00:01:41]

A smile of old tobacco juice was tricklin[00:01:44]

Down his chin [00:01:49]

He said "You might as well try walkin' round[00:01:51]

In someone else's skin "[00:01:54]

"But son [00:01:58]

If you like them old friends of mine so much [00:02:00]

I guess I can let 'em go[00:02:02]

Had to lean 'em to me wife last year [00:02:05]

While she's carry'n Little Joe [00:02:07]

She bent down in the fields one day[00:02:11]

And split that tired old seam[00:02:14]

And now she gone and beat 'em half to death[00:02:17]

On that rock down by the stream'[00:02:20]

The knees looked almost bloody[00:02:25]

From the red Hale County clay [00:02:28]

George Gudger's debts and prayers[00:02:31]

Kept him they kneelin' down all day [00:02:34]

You know I walked just like a drunken man [00:02:38]

They almost made me fall [00:02:42]

They kept tryin' to steer me back place towards Gudger's[00:02:46]

Cuz they're still Old George's overalls [00:02:49]

At home before the mirror[00:02:52]

I seemed to be a different man [00:02:55]

In my mind they kept a seein'[00:02:58]

His farmed out patch of land [00:03:01]

So I took him back his overalls and a week supply of food [00:03:04]

I also left my brand new pair and sneaked home in the nude[00:03:10]