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East Texas Talking Blues
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott
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If you're traveling through East Texas, stopping into some
Cafe along the road, you're liable to run into somebody with
A guitar just as well as not. Around that part of the country
Pretty frequent you'll, you'll hear something like this...
You notice he ain't singing at all, he's just talking
Along with it. They call them things the talking blues
East Texas talking blues. Some of them goes like this
Down in the wildwood sitting on a log, finger on my trigger
Eye on a hog. Pulled the trigger and the gun went zip and
I caught that hog with all my grip. He got away. I didn't
Need him anyhow. Had a lot of fun shooting him though!
I got a gal six feet tall, sleeps in the kitchen with
Her feet in the hall, eating hog eyes, spitting out
Chitlins. Just loves ice cream, especially with gravy
I was out in the henhouse down on my knees and I thought
I heard a chicken sneeze. It weren't nothing but a
Rooster saying his prayers, thanking his Lord with the
Hens upstairs. Oh my, such goings-on you never did see!
Now the other day I took me a wife and I got a little son, he's the
Pride of my life. He rubs mashed potatoes in my hair, slides string
Beans up my nose and says, "You're my pa, ain't you?" Disgusting!
And you're liable to hear them things as long as you
Can hang on and keep drinking coffee. Hundreds of them