Old Man Willis - Tony Joe White

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Down in West Cow Parish 'bout twenty miles from Arkansas

Lived a man and his wife and four or five childrens

The wierdest people I ever saw

Old man Willis

That’s what everybody called him

He used to chase his young’uns and his wife

With his Jim Bowie huntin' knife

He had four coons a cat and a hound dog

They stayed in the same house with him

They ate from his dinner table

Drank from his water bucket

Slept in the same bed with him

Old Man Willis

Where do ya’all come from

He used to chase his youg’uns and his wife

With his double bladed sharp knife

Lord mama says she thought the man was crazy

Daddy said he’s just a drunk

Lord and some people say that he made his livin'

Making whiskey in the Beff River swamps

Old Man Willis

Where do you get your BRead

He used to chase his young’uns and his wife

With his double bladed huntin' knife

Lord we’d see him a comin' down a dirt road

In his forty-nine Pontiac

Just to getting it!

And mama would holler ya’all get under the house

Cause Mr. Willis drives like a maniac

Old Man Willis

Why do you drive so bad?

He finally caught his young’uns and his wife

And slate them with his huntin' knife

Lord have mercy

Willis!

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