Old Joe Clark - Bill Monroe

Farethee well Old Joe Clark

Farethee well I say

Farethe well Old Joe Clark

I’m bound go go away

I will not go to Old Joe’s house

I’ll tell ya the reason why

Every floor in Old Joes’s house

Is filled with chicken pie

Old Joe Clark he did take sick

And what do ya think ailed him?

He drank a churn of butter milk

And then his stomach failed him

I will not marry an old maid

And I’ll tell ya the reason why

Her neck’s so long and stringy boys

I’m afraid she’ll never die

Old Joe Clark he did get drunk

And he sat down to his supper

He leaned over at the dinner table

And stoved his nose in the butter