George Gudger's Overalls-Doc Watson

[ti:George Gudger's Overalls] [ar:Doc Watson] [al:The Definitive] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]George Gudger's Overalls - Doc Watson [00:06.77]As I walked out one mornin' [00:08.90]In the Alabama chill [00:11.76] [00:12.76]I saw some old friends hangin' [00:15.01] [00:15.57]From a tree on Hobie's Hill [00:18.13] [00:19.07]By their tattered legs [00:20.63]They dangled drippin' down along the spine [00:24.50] [00:25.43]It was old George Gudger's overalls [00:27.61] [00:28.49]A-drying on the line [00:30.86] [00:33.36]George Gudger he's an honest cuss [00:36.42]And he likes to work his land [00:38.66] [00:39.35]I'd long admired them overalls [00:41.79] [00:42.47]That I held there in my hand [00:44.96] [00:45.84]My brand new pair was stiffer [00:48.02] [00:48.71]Than a starched-up Sunday suit [00:50.96] [00:51.83]But his could walk 'round by themselves [00:55.01]And plow the corn to boot [00:57.32] [00:59.64]Now the knees looked almost bloody [01:01.95] [01:02.70]From the red Hale County clay [01:05.07] [01:05.88]George Gudger's debts and prayers had kept him [01:09.32]Kneelin' down all day [01:11.81] [01:14.15]Old George owes me money [01:16.27] [01:16.84]But I owe him my respect [01:19.08] [01:20.50]If these overalls will fit me [01:22.74]Boy I'll forget about his debt [01:25.68] [01:32.85]I stepped in to them big old legs like fallin [01:36.66]Down a mine [01:37.85] [01:38.59]Then I heard a ragged chuckle [01:40.59] [01:41.59]And there stood old George behind [01:43.96] [01:44.90]A smile of old tobacco juice was tricklin [01:49.27]Down his chin [01:50.32] [01:51.08]He said "You might as well try walkin' round [01:54.32]In someone else's skin " [01:57.38] [01:58.87]"But son [02:00.00]If you like them old friends of mine so much [02:02.18]I guess I can let 'em go [02:04.30] [02:05.92]Had to lean 'em to me wife last year [02:07.61]While she's carry'n Little Joe [02:10.17] [02:11.74]She bent down in the fields one day [02:14.54]And split that tired old seam [02:16.97] [02:17.73]And now she gone and beat 'em half to death [02:20.66]On that rock down by the stream' [02:22.72] [02:25.53]The knees looked almost bloody [02:27.77] [02:28.46]From the red Hale County clay [02:31.02] [02:31.89]George Gudger's debts and prayers [02:34.33]Kept him they kneelin' down all day [02:37.45] [02:38.45]You know I walked just like a drunken man [02:42.94]They almost made me fall [02:45.06] [02:46.06]They kept tryin' to steer me back place towards Gudger's [02:49.74]Cuz they're still Old George's overalls [02:51.74] [02:52.42]At home before the mirror [02:54.36] [02:55.11]I seemed to be a different man [02:57.48] [02:58.41]In my mind they kept a seein' [03:01.29]His farmed out patch of land [03:03.84] [03:04.53]So I took him back his overalls and a week supply of food [03:09.90] [03:10.64]I also left my brand new pair and sneaked home in the nude