Well away down yonder on the Candy Creek I wait a lot of fiddles on my wagon seat
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I tune up the fiddle and I rosin' that bow and I play a little tune wherever I go
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Sleepy eyed John better get your britches on sleepy eyed John better tie your shoe
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Sleepy eyed John you better get your bitches on
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Try to get to heaven fore the devil gets to you
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[ guitar ]
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Well sleepy Eyed John had one wooden leg wadn't nothin' but a little wooden peg
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With one shoe off and one shoe on
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He'd do the double shuffle till the cows come home
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Sleepy eyed John...
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[ guitar ]
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Well over in the hickory and down in the pine
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The racoon laughs and the hound dog whines
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And the hound dog whines and the racoon laughs
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And they cross that river in a minute and a half
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Sleepy eyed John...
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[ guitar ]
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Hey sleepy eyed John once stalked a goose that goose it flapped but couldn't get loose
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Said John to the goose well you better be still
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I'm gonna miss my supper and tea if you will
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Sleepy eyed John...
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Sleepy eyed John...
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Sleepy Eyed John
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Dave Dudley |