Misc Traditional – The Young Man Who Wouldnt Hoe Corn (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
     G
I’ll sing you a song and it’s not very long,

                                        Em
It’s about a young man who wouldn’t hoe corn.

    G            D      Em
The reason why I cannot tell,

                   D      Em
This young man was always well.
[Verse 2]
   G
He planted his corn in the month of June

                        Em
And in July it was knee high.

   G                  D      Em
September first there came a frost

                         D        Em
And all this young man’s corn was lost.
[Verse 3]
   G
He went to the fence and there peeped in,

                                   Em
The weeds and grass came up to his chin.

    G                    D     Em
The weeds and grass grew up so high,

                           D      Em
They caused this young man for to sigh.
[Verse 4]
   G
So he went down to his neighbor’s door,

                        Em
Where he had often been before.

        G                            D     Em
Sayin' “Pretty little miss, will you marry me?

                         D      Em
Pretty little miss, what do you say?”
[Verse 5]
 G
“Here you are, a-wanting for to wed.

                                     Em
And can’t grow corn for to make corn bread!

G            D             Em
Single I am, single I’ll remain,

                D       Em
A lazy man I’ll not maintain.”
[Verse 6]
 G
“You go down to that pretty little widow

                                    Em
And I hope, by heck, that you don’t get her.”

    G                    D              Em
She gave him the mitten, sure as you’re born,

               D            Em
All because he wouldn’t hoe corn.