| Talking bout Jumping Jim, talking bout Mud Slide Slim.
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| Don’t you know that a fish got to swim, don’t a goose got to fly high?
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| Little dog got to die and I’m going home.
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| Woh, don’t you know. |
| Woh, don’t you know.
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| Talking bout a life on the street, gonna think about an itch in my feet.
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| Can’t you hand me down them highway shoes?
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| Lord knows I’m talking 'bout the walking blues,
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| got the rocking pneumonia blues and I’m headed home, bye-bye.
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| Woh, don’t you know. |
| Woh, don’t you know
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| Listen here now, don’t you come round talking bout over yonder, listen,
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| bound to wake up the walking man in me and I’m bound to wandering, hey now,
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| talking all about spooning into bone, looking just like Sherlock Holmes.
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| Looking for a needle in a haystack, seeing and eating lots of fatback,
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| hey, talking bout a railroad track and I’m going home, bye-bye.
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| Woh, don’t you know. |
| Woh, don’t you know.
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| Woh, who, don’t you know. |
| You oughta know, you oughta know, you oughta know.
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| You oughta know like a fish in the stream, oughta know like a leaf on the tree.
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| Oughta know like a boat in the sea. |