DE GREY GOOSE

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Song Title
DE GREY GOOSE
Writers
Ledbetter, Huddie, Lomax Alan, Lomax John A
Publisher
FOLKWAYS MUSIC PUBLISHERS, INC. (BMI)
Co-Publisher
Non-TRO Affiliate
% Publisher Controls
50%0US/100% WORLD EX US
Territory Controlled
WORLD
Themes/Keywords
Animal, Animals, Birds, Gun, Hogs, Knife, Lord, Morning, Sunday, Table, Wife
Lyrics
One Sunday morning, Lord, Lord, Lord,
Preacher went a-hunting. Lord, Lord, Lord.
He carried along a shot-gun, Lord, Lord, Lord,
Long come a gray goose, Lord, Lord, Lord.
The gun went off boo-loom, Lord, Lord, Lord,
Down come the gray goose, Lord, Lord, Lord.
He was six weeks a-fallin’, Lord, Lord, Lord,
He was six weeks a-haulin’, Lord, Lord, Lord.
Then my wife and your wife, Lord, Lord, Lord,
Give it feather pickin’, Lord, Lord, Lord.
They were six weeks a-pickin’, Lord, Lord, Lord,
They put him on a parboil, Lord, Lord, Lord.

He was six weeks a boilin’,
And they put him on a table,
And the fork wouldn’t stick him
And the knife wouldn’t cut him.
And they throwed him in the hog pen,
And the hogs couldn’t eat him,
And he broke the hog’s teeth out.
And they put him in the saw-mill,
And the saw couldn’t cut him,
And he broke all the teeth out.

And the last time I seed him, Lord, Lord, Lord,
Flyin’ ‘cross the ocean, Lord, Lord, Lord.
With a long string of goslins,
And they all gwine, quack-quack.
Lord, Lord, Lord.

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