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One of my top faves from Anthology of American Folk Music
Poll Results
| Option | Votes |
| Likewise you walking skeletons, you old sassafras hills | 2 |
| His bread was old corn dodgers, his beef I could not chaw | 1 |
| But I never knew what misery was ’til I went to Arkansas | 1 |
| I got so thin on sassafras tea I could hide behind a straw | 1 |
| Alan Catcher was his name although they called him Cain | 1 |
| I got up that next morning to catch that early train | 0 |
| He said "don’t be in a hurry lad, I have some land to drain | 0 |
| You’ll get your 50 cents a day and all that you can chaw | 0 |
| You’ll find yourself a different lad when you leave old Arkansas" | 0 |
| I worked 6 weeks for the son of a gun, Alan Catcher was his name | 0 |
| He stood 7 feet 2 inches, as tall as any crane | 0 |
| You bet I was a different lad when I left old Arkansas | 0 |
| Farewell you old swamp rabbits, also you dodger pills | 0 |
| If you ever see my face again I’ll hand you down my paw | 0 |
| He charged me 50 cents a day in the state of Arkansas | 0 |
| My name is John Johanna, I came from Buffalo town | 0 |
| For 9 long years I’ve travelled this wide wide world around | 0 |
| Through ups and downs and miseries and some good days I saw | 0 |
| I went up to the station the operator to find | 0 |
| Told him my situation and where I wanted to ride | 0 |
| Said hand me down 5 dollars, a ticket you shall draw | 0 |
| That’ll land you safely railway in the state of Arkansas | 0 |
| I rode up to the station then chanced to meet a friend | 0 |
| His hair hung down in rat tails below his under jaw | 0 |
| He said he run the best hotel in the state of Arkansas | 0 |
| I followed my companion to his respected place | 0 |
| Saw pity and starvation was pictured on his face | 0 |
| I’ll be lookin’ through a telescope from home to Arkansas | 0 |
― Abbott, Saturday, 13 September 2008 15:07 (seventeen years ago)
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