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Man, it sure is hot in here tonight Yeah, must be a hundred and twenty degrees in the shade Course you all don't have to stay in the shade you know (Hahahaha) Hey Dallas, yeah You know what the cook having for dinner? Yeah, he having a thousand things for dinner Yeah, every one other than beans (Hahaha) Beans well done Beans smothered in beans Beans medium rare And one other thing Beans Don't leave them out You got to put some beans in there You know when I was a kid I used to go out into the pasture late at night Kick the old cow and make her get up So I can lie down on the warm ground where she'd been Then I just I just lie there and wait for the 10.20 train to go by And I'd watch all them fine folks sitting upon that train Everybody going somewhere Maybe somebody waiting at the end of the line to say howdy But I tell you right then and there I said to myself Someday I'm gonna have me a ride on a train And when I get where I'm going There'll be somebody waiting there for me too Well I got me a train ride alright One way right in here With a whole bunch of Unfitting people to be with And when I got to the gate There was somebody waiting Old captain And he didn't have the decency to say hello Now I didn't intend to stay this long, you know But I wasn't gonna leave here till he says hello Hey Dowbally Yeah, Look at that possum Sure looks good enough to eat Hey Billy Blue You know how to cook a possum? Don't everybody? Not like my old lady Man the way old lady cook a possum The first day She's stick it in a bottle of scorn squeezing's And juice it up there a little while Then next day she put in a bottle of bourbon And juice that one up a little while Then she put in a bottle of dandelion wine And juice that up a little bit Then the possum man sure was,some good gravy Hey Dowbally, yeah What you figure your old lady's doing in Memphis tonight? Man one of these days I'm gonna put my footprint on the top of your head I told you I don't play that Hey look here naked ape Tell 'em I was only asking He only asking Dow, yeah I sure got hard luck being in here Don't knock it man If I didn't have hard luck I wouldn't have no luck at all Look at that new prisoner over there He sure look lonely don't he? That sure is a waste of time Hey new prisoner Don't look so lonely man You just climb up in your bunk You'll have more friends then you know what to do with And you be so busy scratching You don't have time to get lonesome Anybody ever figured a way to get out of here? Nobody would ever made it I figured a way to get out of here once I figured the only way to get out of here was to Make friends with old Rattler The lead hound? Yeah that's him So every morning for six months I sneaked out and gave old Rattler All my breakfast grits Six months Then I made my getaway But man sure enough They turned old Rattler out And sure enough he treat me And sure enough the captain brought me right back in here Why you reckon old Rattler done that to you? That dirty lousy old flea bitten He got so used to them grits I guess he didn't wanna let 'em go That's old Rattler Well Shh, there goes the guard Man just listen to that rain This the only bunkhouse It rains inside And leaks outside