![Old Joe Clark - John Hartford](https://cdn.muztext.com/i/3284751707543925347.jpg)
Date of issue: 28.08.2011
Record label: Warner
Song language: English
Old Joe Clark |
Old Joe Clark was a preacher-man |
He preached all over the plain |
The highest text he ever took |
Was a-High, Low, Jack, and a-Game |
Well, he came down to my house |
And showed me all of his cards |
He whispered low in his gambler’s voice |
It’s reallly not too hard |
I ain’t never had no trouble |
Just walk around wearing a sheet |
Buncha people waving them palm leaves |
Just to keep Joe Clark from the heat |
Well, Old Joe Clark’s got 2 little girls |
To wash his feet and sing |
«Old Joe Clark», I heard one say |
«We'll give you anything» |
Let’s go down to the church-house |
There’s a lotta good things goin' down |
The crown turns over at 9 o’clock |
With the cream of the underground |
CHORUS: Well get on down to Canaan brother |
There’s a lotta good things goin' down |
With a little bit of luck and a couple of bucks |
You could be down there when the Glory rolls |
Wake up brother, there’s a new day coming |
And it hasn’t got time to stop |
If’n you got the bread, you could change your head |
You could be down there when the Glory rolls |
Well I asked old Joe to manage me |
So that I could go and sing |
He said hurry up, I could wait on him |
And he’d help me to do my thing |
Now he calls me every hour |
When I’m trying to be alone |
Just wants to keep me posted |
That there’s nothin' goin' on |
REPEAT CHORUS |
Well I need an old Orpheum 5-string |
With a 12 inch open back pot |
So the next time you go to the attic |
Look and see what you got |
Or a 12 inch Farland open-back |
28 three-eighths inch scale |
I wish you’d write and let me know |
If’n you got one for sale |
REPEAT CHORUS |
++R.I.P. |
John Hartford++ |
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Willy ft. Pete Seeger, Joni Mitchell | 2019 |
Both Sides Now ft. Pete Seeger, Joni Mitchell | 2019 |
A Case Of You ft. Pete Seeger, Joni Mitchell | 2019 |
Morning Bugle | 2002 |
Because Of You | 2002 |
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Up on the Hill Where They Do the Boogie | 2011 |
Let Him Go on, Mama | 2021 |
Steamboat Whistle Blues | 2011 |
Here I Am In Love Again | 1989 |
Turn Your Radio On | 2021 |