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MuddyBuddy:
Thanks for the tip Stuart. Will have to look into that.

cheers
Bert/Buddy

ScottN:
Forgive me if there is already a topic for this, I didn't see one.


God Don't Like Ugly from I Have To Paint My Face album

   

Spoken: Say boy where you from?  You [naturally] [born / bout] the ugliest man ever I seen.  I wish I could play the dozens but I didn't learn to count to twelve else I'd play the dozens with you.

I don't play no dozens cause I didn't learn to count to twelve
They tell me God don't like ugly, said boy your home's in Hell
I'd like to see your mammy, your pappy, too.
See how come you's born they didn't sell you out to some zoo
I don't play no dozens I didn't learn to count to twelve

They tell be God don't like ugly said boy your home's in Hell
Your mammy got scared she started in a show
Couldn't been scared of nothin but [?elephant o thing go]
I don't play no dozen I didn't learn to count to twelve

They tell me God don't like ugly say boy your home's in Hell
You standin around here you lookin big and stout
All you lack bein an elephant you ain't got a tail and a snout
I don't play no dozens I didn't learn to count to twelve

They tell me God don't like ugly said boy your home's in hell
Adam named everything I believe he skipped you
You look like you ought to be up a tree hollering hoo hoo hoo
I don't play no dozens I didn't learn to count to twelve

They tell me God don't like ugly boy your home's in Hell
God took a ball of mud when he got ready to make a man
When He got ready to make you partner ugly as you is I believe it slipped out His hand
I don't play no dozens I didn't learn to count to twelve

They tell me God don't like ugly said boy your home's in Hell
Adam named everything they put out in the zoo
I'd like Adam to be here see what the hell he'd name you
I don't play no dozens I didn't learn to count to twelve


Thanks,
           Scott

frankie:
I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatmon



Say God made us all
He made some at night
That's why he didn't take time
To make us all white

Chorus:
  I'm bound to change my name
  I have to paint my face
  So I won't be kin
  To that Ethiopian race

Say now let me tell you one thing
That a stomp down nigger will do
He'll pull up young cotton
And he'll kill baby chickens too

Chorus

Say when God made me
Say the moon was givin' light
I'm so doggone sorry
He didn't finish me up white

Chorus

Say now when God made people
He done pretty well
But when he made a jet black nigger
He made them some hell

Chorus

Say God took a ball of mud
When he got ready to make man
When he went to make you partner
I believe it slipped out his hand

Chorus

This probably should have been the B side of Good Old Turnip Greens!

Johnm:
Thanks, Scott and Frank, for starting this new lyric thread.  I think, Scott, in "God Don't Like Ugly", that in 3.3 Sam sings:

   All YOU LACK bein' an elephant, you ain't got a tail and a snout

All best,
Johnm

ScottN:
Hi John,

Thanks, I made the change.

Frankie, your lyrics looked dead on to me.

Thanks,
            Scott

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