《George Gudger’s Overalls》歌词

[00:00:00] George Gudger's Overalls - Doc Watson

[00:00:07] As I walked out one mornin'

[00:00:09] In the Alabama chill

[00:00:13] I saw some old friends hangin'

[00:00:16] From a tree on Hobie's Hill

[00:00:19] By their tattered legs

[00:00:21] They dangled drippin' down along the spine

[00:00:26] It was old George Gudger's overalls

[00:00:29] A-drying on the line

[00:00:33] George Gudger he's an honest cuss

[00:00:36] And he likes to work his land

[00:00:39] I'd long admired them overalls

[00:00:42] That I held there in my hand

[00:00:46] My brand new pair was stiffer

[00:00:48] Than a starched-up Sunday suit

[00:00:52] But his could walk 'round by themselves

[00:00:55] And plow the corn to boot

[00:00:59] Now the knees looked almost bloody

[00:01:02] From the red Hale County clay

[00:01:06] George Gudger's debts and prayers had kept him

[00:01:09] Kneelin' down all day

[00:01:14] Old George owes me money

[00:01:17] But I owe him my respect

[00:01:20] And if these overalls will fit me

[00:01:22] Boy I'll forget about his debt

[00:01:33] I stepped in to them big old legs like fallin

[00:01:37] Down a mine

[00:01:39] Then I heard a ragged chuckle

[00:01:41] And there stood old George behind

[00:01:45] A smile of old tobacco juice was tricklin

[00:01:49] Down his chin

[00:01:51] He said "You might as well try walkin' round

[00:01:54] In someone else's skin "

[00:01:59] "But son

[00:02:00] If you like them old friends of mine so much

[00:02:01] I guess I can let 'em go

[00:02:06] Had to lean 'em to me wife last year

[00:02:08] While she's carry'n Little Joe

[00:02:11] She bent down in the fields one day

[00:02:15] And split that tired old seam

[00:02:18] And now she gone and beat 'em half to death

[00:02:21] On that rock down by the stream'

[00:02:25] The knees looked almost bloody

[00:02:28] From the red Hale County clay

[00:02:32] George Gudger's debts and prayers

[00:02:34] They kept him kneelin' down all day

[00:02:40] You know I walked just like a drunken man

[00:02:43] They almost made me fall

[00:02:46] They kept tryin' to steer me back towards Gudger's place

[00:02:48] Cuz they're still Old George's overalls

[00:02:52] At home before the mirror

[00:02:55] I seemed to be a different man

[00:02:58] In my mind they kept a seein'

[00:03:01] His farmed out patch of land

[00:03:04] So I took him back his overalls and a week supply of food

[00:03:11] I also left my brand new pair and sneaked home in the nude