That's My Pa-Sheb Wooley

[ti:That's My Pa] [ar:Sheb Wooley] [al:Songs from the Days of Rawhide / Sings That's My Pa and That's My Ma and Other Selections] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]That's My Pa (Original Mix) - Sheb Wooley [00:09.66]Now back in the country [00:10.80]Where I was born [00:11.98]Is on a little old hillside farm [00:14.10]My pa raised six kids [00:15.65]And one of 'em was me [00:16.91] [00:18.06]In the fall of the year [00:19.35]When the fields got white [00:20.23]We'd start pickin' cotton [00:20.98]About daylight [00:21.64] [00:22.42]On Saturday [00:23.26]Pa'd take it all to town [00:24.72] [00:26.69]And along about dark [00:27.77]And everything was still [00:28.60]We could tell it was pa comin' down the hill [00:30.66]'Cause he'd rear back and he'd sound off somethin' like this [00:32.91] [00:35.39]Ewww ewwww [00:37.53] [00:38.59]Ha ha ha ha haaaa [00:40.46] [00:43.83]Ewww ewwww [00:46.03] [00:47.47]Ha ha ha ha haaaa [00:49.33] [00:52.13]Now we'd go out to meet him [00:53.69]With a lantern light [00:54.55]'Cause the roads got crooked [00:55.49]On saturday night [00:56.39]And he'd come on down the hill [00:57.91]And he'd stop in the yard [00:59.09] [01:00.76]He'd sit up there on that wagon seat [01:02.30]And he'd say boys I'm hard to beat [01:04.87]Two hundred pounds of steel [01:06.32]And twice as hard [01:07.28] [01:09.20]Southern wild and wooly and full of fleas [01:11.30]And there never been cares for all his needs [01:13.51]And he'd rear back and bellow out a course or two [01:15.96] [01:17.94]Ewww ewwww [01:19.91] [01:20.96]Ha ha ha ha haaaa [01:22.44] [01:24.73]Hehehehe [01:25.00] [01:26.32]Ewww ewwww [01:28.45] [01:29.55]Ha ha ha ha haaaa [01:31.25] [01:32.26]That's my pa [01:32.95] [01:34.47]Jittered up and ready [01:35.74]And about half wild [01:36.98]And I can whip anybody in about half mile [01:38.91]Of course there wasn't anybody there [01:40.10]Except me and little skeet [01:41.25] [01:43.22]Just as tough as a hickory frier [01:45.25]And I can dive deeper and come up drier [01:47.62]And he did it too [01:48.81]Right off that wagon seat [01:49.83] [01:51.92]Oh it shook him up [01:53.05]When he hit the ground [01:54.24]Pa got up and looked around [01:55.64] [01:56.19]And then ran back and let us have it again [01:58.44] [02:00.72]Ewww ewwww [02:02.70] [02:03.93]Ha ha ha ha haaaa [02:05.07] [02:09.13]Ewww ewwww [02:11.50] [02:12.54]Ha ha ha ha haaaa [02:13.93] [02:17.79]Ewww ewwww [02:19.71] [02:21.01]Ha ha ha ha haaaa