Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song George Gudger's Overalls, artist - Doc Watson.
Date of issue: 11.11.2021
Song language: English
George Gudger's Overalls |
As I walked out one mornin' in the Alabama chill |
I saw some old friends hangin' from a tree on Hobie’s Hill |
By their tattered legs they dangled drippin' down along the spine |
It was old George Gudger’s overalls a-drying on the line |
George Gudger, he’s an honest cuss, and he likes to work his land |
I’d long admired them overalls that I held there in my hand |
My brand new pair was stiffer than a starched-up Sunday suit |
But his could walk 'round by themselves and plow the corn to boot! |
Now the knees looked almost bloody from the red Hale County clay |
George Gudger’s debts and prayers had kept him kneelin' down all day |
Old George owes me money, but I owe him my respect |
And if these overalls will fit me, Boy, I’ll forget about his debt |
I stepped in to them big old legs like fallin' down a mine |
Then I heard a ragged chuckle, and there stood old George behind |
A smile of old tobacco juice was tricklin' down his chin |
He said, «You might as well try walkin' round in someone else’s skin. |
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«But son, if you like them old friends of mine so much, I guess I can let 'em go |
Had to lean 'em to me wife last year, while she’s carry’n Little Joe |
She bent down in the fields one day And split that tired old seam |
And now she gone and beat 'em half to death on that rock down by the stream' |
The knees looked almost bloody from the red Hale County clay |
George Gudger’s debts and prayers they kept him kneelin' down all day |
You know I walked just like a drunken man, they almost made me fall |
They kept tryin' to steer me back towards Gudger’s place, Cuz they’re still Old |
George’s overalls! |
At home before the mirror I seemed to be a different man |
In my mind they kept a seein' His farmed out patch of land |
So I took him back his overalls and a week supply of food |
I also left my brand new pair and sneaked home in the nude |