9. Arkansas Sheik (3:19)

Come all ye Missouri gals, listen to my noise:
Never you marry no Arkansas boys
Iff'n you do, I tell you what it'd be,
cold cornbread, molasses, and sassafrass tea

The first thing he does whenever he comes in
He takes a chew o tobacco and he slobbers on his chin
the first thing he says whevever he sets down
Madam, ain't your johnny cakes baking too brown

When you go courting, I tell you how to dress
It's a buckskin huntin shirt and this is the best
An old flop hat with my brim than crown
An old pair of shoes with the heels run down

They milk a little bridle cow and strain it in a gourd
They put in the corner and they cover it with a board
Some gets a little and some gets none
This is the way that the Arkansas run

It's an old board roof and a puncheon floor
An oak pole bedstead an oak board door
Sleepin on slats with a handful of straw
Trying to get along with my mother in law

It's an old blind mule and an old milk cow
A razorback hog and a bull tongue plow
He has his poke salad and his Sassafras tea
But the Arkansas sheik he's a mystery to me

Now I sung you all my song and I bet you're glad its through
The Arkansas sheik he's feeling kindly blue
He got drunk and took into town
Cause the Arkansas gal turned his damper down