Poor Howard/Green Corn

Old Howard's a poor boy
Old Howard's dead and gone
Left me here to sing his song
Too many years since I've been gone
With a little gal with a red dress on
With a little gal with a red dress on
With a little gal with a red dress on
With a little gal with a red dress on
God knows, with a little gal with a red dress on

Old Howard was a poor boy and he'd go all
Around on the plantation, play for the
He's the first man to start the band in the world
And he'd go around all the time, while poor Howard's
Dead and gone, everybody sang this song about him
Old Howard's dead and gone
Left me here to sing his song

Old Howard was a poor boy

Old Howard, he was a poor boy
Old Howard, he was a poor boy

Old Howard, he was a poor boy
God knows, left me here to shout for joy

Green corn, green corn, green corn, come along Charley
Green corn, won't you follow
Green corn, green corn, all I want
This creation, little bitty wife, big salvation
Two little boys call me papa
And then top them one named gravy
Green corn, green corn, come along Charley
Green corn, won't you follow
Green corn, come along Charley
Green corn

Boys call me papa
And then top them one named gravy
One named top them one named gravy
One gonna put him down, the other gonna save him
Green corn, green corn, green corn, come along Charley
Green corn, won't you follow
Green corn

Stand around, stand around the jimmy-john
Stand around, stand around the jimmy-john
Stand around, stand around the jimmy-john
Stand around, stand around the jimmy-john
Green corn, come along Charley
Green corn, won't you follow

Green corn, green corn, green corn, green corn
Wake, snake day's a-breakin'
Peas in the pot, hoecakes a-bakin'
Green corn, come along Charley
Green corn, come along Charley
Green corn, come along Charley
Green corn, run along Charley
Stand around, stand around
Stand around, stand around the jimmy-john
Stand around, stand around the jimmy-john