Eddy Arnold – Jeff Canady (Guitar)

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Hurry, hurry, children you better get a runnin'

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Jeff Canady's comin' and he eats little youngin's

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His wife is a witch and Jeff can switch

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From a snake to a frog or an old mad dog

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So you better leave him alone.

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My sister was a backward child she never walked a step

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She crawled around the old home place and always needed help

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At eight years old she never walked and never went to school

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The teacher said she couldn't help she'd grow to be a fool.

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We took her to a fine surgeon he said dear folks I dread

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The body's strong but her mind won't grow, it's something in her head

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Now there was a bum who walked around way back in those days

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And momma would say we'd better be good or he'd take us kids away.

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Hurry, hurry, children you better get a runnin'

                                         Em
Jeff Canady's comin' and he eats little youngin's

     C                   G
His wife is a witch and Jeff can switch

                              C
From a snake to a frog or an old mad dog

          D               Em
So you better leave him alone.

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We sheltered Sis from snakes and frogs and when the mad dogs came

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But the one thing that she feared the most was old Jeff Canady's name

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One day old Jeff came down the road when sister played alone

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She screamed and squirmed and then decided she was there alone.

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She jumped and ran to momma's arms as Jeff went on his way

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But thank the Lord my sister walks until this very day

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I guess old Jeff is walking yet down heavens lonesome mile

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But beneath his beard I swear I bet he wears a great big smile.

C                             G
Hurry, hurry, children you better get a runnin'

                                         Em
Jeff Canady's comin' and he eats little youngin's

     C                   G
His wife is a witch and Jeff can switch

                              C
From a snake to a frog or an old mad dog

          D               Em
So you better leave him alone...