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Cornbread and butterbeans and you across the table

Eatin' them beans and makin' love as long as I am able

Hoein' corn and cotton too, and when the day is over

Ride the mule and cut the fool and love again all over

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Goodbye, don't you cry, I'm going to Louisiana

To buy a coon dog and a big fat hog and marry Susie Anna

Same song, ding-dong, I'll take a trip to China

Cornbread and butterbeans, then back to North Carolina

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Wearin' shoes and drinking booze, it goes against the Bible

A necktie will make you die and cause you lots of trouble

Streetcars and whiskey bars and kissing pretty women

Women, yeah, that's the end of a terrible beginning

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I can't read and don't care and education is awful

Raising heck and writin' checks, it ought to be unlawful

Silk hose and frilly clothes is just a waste of money

Come with me and stay with me and say you'll be my honey

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