I'm The Man Who Rode The Mule Around The World

(album: High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project - 2009)

I promised to meet her when the clock struck twenty-three
Down in the village, just four miles out of town
She runs the local tavern and the liquor's always free
But the pickles sell for nineteen cents a pound

Oh, she's my Daisy, she's black eyed and she's crazy
The prettiest girl I thought I ever saw
Now her breath smells sweet but I'd rather smell her feet
For she's my freckle faced consumptive Sara Jane

He's the man who rode the mule around the world
He's the man who rode the mule around the world
I rode in Noah's Ark and I'm as happy as a lark
I'm the man who rode the mule around the world

I was born about ten thousand years ago
And there's nothing on this earth that I don't know
I saw Peter, Paul and Moses playing ring around the roses
And I can whup the man that says it isn't so

He's the man who rode the mule around the world
He's the man who rode the mule around the world
And for Pharaoh's little kiddies I built all the pyramiddies
I'm the man who rode the mule around the world

Queen Elizabeth, she fell in love with me
We were married in Milwaukee secretly
But I rose up and I shook her and went off with General Hooker
To shoot mosquitoes down in Memphis, Tennessee

He's the man who rode the mule around the world
He's the man who rode the mule around the world
I set the flags a-flying when George Washington quit lying
I'm the man who rode the mule around the world

I'm a very highly educated man
There's not a thing that I don't understand
I've been around so long that I used to sing this song
When Abraham and Isaac rushed the can

He's the man who rode the mule around the world
He's the man who rode the mule around the world
Oh, I rode in Noah's Ark, I'm as happy as a lark
I'm the man who rode the mule around the world

I promised to meet her when the clock struck twenty-three
Down in the village just four miles out of town
She runs the local tavern and the liquor's always free
But the pickles sell for nineteen cents a pound