Chicken Road-Tennessee Ernie Ford

[ti:Chicken Road] [ar:Greene] [al:That Rovin' Gambler] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Chicken Road - Tennessee Ernie Ford [00:08.74]Once I got a splinter in the joint of my little toe [00:16.51]And a garter snake bit my knee [00:20.52]By the bend of the little St Joe [00:25.26]Honey that's Missouri the land of the dust and the toad [00:34.63]Wonderful town Chicken Road [00:41.77]Once I had a scorpion on the lobe of my good right ear [00:49.56]And I great-great grandma [00:53.96]Who could hear what she wanted to hear [00:58.68]Honey that's Missouri the land where the sky overflows [01:08.11]It's a wonderful town Chicken Road [01:16.58]Beasts of burden nip at their hay [01:22.76] [01:23.27]And a poolroom banjo playin' be an to each day [01:33.92]Night so quiet you could hear a mouse [01:42.91]Tippin' through the parlor of a boarding house [01:51.28]Once I got a sunburn on the back of my itchin' neck [01:59.26]To cried what a girl [02:01.47]In a Model-T and I died in a beautiful wreck [02:10.67]Honey that's Missouri the land that the Lord never knowed [02:22.38]Wonderful town Chicken Road