Album Name : High Wide & Handsome - The Charlie Poole Project
Release Date : 2009-08-18
Song Duration : 3:35
Loudon Wainwright Iii 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.
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.
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 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.