Life
Gets Tee-jus Don't It?
The
sun comes up 'n the sun goes down,
The hands on
the clock keep goin' around;
I just get up
'n it's time to lay down,
Life gets
tee-jus don't it?
My shoes
untied, but I don't care,
I ain't
figuring on goin' nowhere;
I'd have to
wash and comb my hair,
And that's
just wasted effort.
The water in
the well's gettin' lower and lower,
Can't take a
bath for six months more;
But I've
heard it said and it's true I'm sure,
That too much
bathin' will weaken yee.
I open the
door and the flies swarm in,
Close the
door and I'm sweating again;
And in the
process I cracked my shin,
Just one darn
thing after another.
Old brown
mule, he must be sick,
I jabbed him
in the rump with a pin on a stick;
He humped his
back but he wouldn't kick,
There's
something cockeyed somewhere.
A mouse
a-chawing at the pantry door,
He's been at
it for a month or more;
When he gets
through there, he's going to be sore,
There ain't a
darn thing in there.
Hound dog
howling so forlorn,
Laziest dog
that ever was born;
He's a
howlin' 'cause he's sitting on a thorn,
Just too
tired to move over.
Tin roof
leaks and the chimney leans,
There's a
hole in the seat of my old blue jeans;
I've ate the
last of the pork and beans,
Just can't
depend on nothin'.
The cows gone
dry and hens won't lay,
Fish quit
biting last Saturday;
Troubles a
pilin up day by day,
Now I'm
getting dandruff.
Grief and
misery, pains and woes,
Debts 'n
taxes 'n so it goes;
And I think
I'm getting a cold in the nose,
Life gets
tasteless don't
it?