Song Lyrics Unknown - State Of Arkansas    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> U>> Unknown Singer Lyrics [Unknown other resources]>> State Of Arkansas Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Unknown Music Title/Track: State Of Arkansas Theme ID: 5554 Album: N/A State of Arkansas (Tune: somewhere between Joe Bowers and a recitation) My name is Charlie Brennan, from Charlestown I come. I've traveled this wide world over, some ups and downs I've had. I've traveled this wide world over, some ups and downs I saw, But I never knew what mis'ry was till I hit old Arkansas. I landed in St. Louis with ten dollars and no more. I read the daily papers till both my eyes were sore. I read them evening papers, until at last I saw Ten thousand men were wanted in the State of Arkansas. I wiped my eyes with great surprise when I read this happy news. And straight off I went to see the agent, Billy Hughes. He said "Pitch me five dollars, and a ticket you shall draw To ride upon the railroad to the State of Arkansas. I started off next morning at a quarter after five. I started from St. Louis, half dead and half alive, I bought me a quart of whiskey, my misery to thaw And I got drunk as a boiled owl when I left for Arkansas. 'Twas in the year of '82 in the merry month of June I landed in Ft. Smith on a sultry afternoon. The air so hot and dusty, my breath I could not draw But I got off to see what was in the State of Arkansas. I dodged behind the depot, to duck the oven wind. There I met a walking skeleton, his name was James T. Glynn. His hair hung down in rat-tails o'er his long and lantern jaw. Invited me to his hotel "the best in Arkansas." I followed my conductor into his dwelling place. There mis'ry and starvation could be seen in ev'ry face. His bread it was corn dodger, his meat I could not chaw But he charged me a half a dollar in the State of Arkansas. I started off next morning, in a hard and driving rain. He says to me "If you will work, I have some land to drain I'll pay you fifty cents a day, your board and wash and all You'll find yourself a different man when you leave old Arkansas. He fed me on corn dodgers, as hard as any rock, Till my teeth began to loosen and my knees began to knock. I grew so thin on sassafras tea, I could hide behind a straw And, indeed I was a different man when I left old Arkansas. So farewell to swamp-angels, to canebreaks and fever chills Farewell to sage and sassafras and corn-dodger pills. If I ever see this land again, I'll give to you my paw But it'll be though a telescope, from Hell to Arkansas. Recorded by Lee Hayes @pioneer filename[ STATEARK RG ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Storms Are On The Ocean, Stormy Weather Boys, Story Of Macpherson, Story Of Petey The Snake, Stoutest Man In The Forty Twa, Strange Fruit, Strangers In My Soup, Stratton Mountain Tragedy, Strawberry Roan, Streams Of Lovely Nancy, Streets Of Laredo Cowboys Lament, Streets Of London, Strike The Bell, Strike The Bell Landlord, Strip Polka, Studentsangen, Studentsngen, Stutterer, Su Nombre: Admirable!, Sumer Is Icumen In, Summer Rain, Sun Is Burning In The Sky, Sunday Morning, Sunday School, Sunlight The Shadow And You, Supper Isna Ready, Suriname Native Anthem Text, Susanna Martin, Susie Maclean, Suzanne, Swan Swims Bonnie Two Sisters, Swannanoa Tunnel, Swaziland Anthem Text, Swaziland Native Anthem Text, Sweden Native Anthem Text, Sweeney Todd The Barber, Sweet And Low, Sweet Betsy From Pike, Sweet Cootehill Town, Sweet Joan, Sweet Nancy, Sweet Rose Of Allandale, Sweet Rosie Levinsky, Sweet Song From Yesterday, Sweet Thames Flow Softly, Sweet Thing, Sweet Violets, Sweet Williams Ghost, Swimming In The Swimming Pool, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Other Unknown song Lyrics 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall Lyrics A Bird in a Gilded Cage Lyrics A Fenian Song Lyrics A Fool Such As I Lyrics A Friend Like You Lyrics A Hero of the Wrong War Lyrics A Horse Named Bill Lyrics A Hundred Years from Now Lyrics A Kangaroo Sat on an Oak Lyrics A Little Bit of Solitude Lyrics A Living Wage Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Unknown Prophets Lyrics Unleashed Lyrics Unleashed Power Lyrics Unlimited Nation Lyrics Unlimited Sound Lyrics UNLOCO Lyrics Unlord Lyrics UNLV Lyrics Unni Wilhelmsen Lyrics Uno Svenningsson Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy