Pete Seeger – Young Man Who Wouldnt Hoe Corn (Guitar)

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I’ll sing you a song and it’s not very long

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

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The reason why I can’t tell

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This young man was always well

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He planted his corn in the month of June

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And by July it was knee high

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First of September there came a big frost

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And all this young man’s corn was lost

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He went to the fence and there peeked in

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The weeds and the grass grew up to his chin

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The weeds and the grass they grew so high

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It caused this young man for to sigh

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He went down to his neighbour’s door

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Where he had often been before

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Saying “Pretty little miss, will you marry me?

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Pretty little miss what do you say?”

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“Here you are a wanting for to wed

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And cannot make your own cornbread

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Single I am and single I’ll remain

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A lazy man I won’t maintain

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Well he went down to a pretty little wider

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And I hope by heck that he don’t get her

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She gave him the mitten as sure as you’re born

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And all because he wouldn’t hoe corn.