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yeah you know it, dear
But then he goes and admits
He's up to no good shits
Kiss her once for me
What you think you're on about, Burl?
Don't tell me

Burl Ives - Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe

Come all ye lads and lasses, and hear my mournful tale,
Ye tender hearts that weep for love to sigh you

Burl Ives - Juanita

Well I'm finally gettin' used to the water the way the tarantulas bite
Those Federales didn't believe I only came here to watch

Burl Ives - Mrs. McGrath

"Now, Mrs. McGrath," the sergeant said,
"Would you like to make a soldier
Out of your son, Ted?
With a scarlet cloak

In Mercea?  The coconut's tropical!
ARTHUR:  What do you mean?
GUARD #1:  Well, this is a temperate zone.
ARTHUR:  The swallow may fly south with

Burl Ives - I know my love

know my love by her way of walking
And I know my love by her way of talking
And I know my love by her suit of blue
But if

Burl Ives - Rescue the perishing

	Rescue the perishing, care for the dying,
	snatch them in pity from sin and the grave;
	weep o'er the erring one,

Burl Ives - I've got no use for women

I have got no use for the women, a true one may never be found.
They'll stick by a man for his money and when

Burl Ives – Pretty Polly

I courted pretty Polly the live long night
I courted pretty Polly the live long night
But I slept on her grave the best

Burl Ives - John Henry

John Henry he could hammer,
He could whistle, he could sing
He went to the mountain early in the mornin'
Just to hear his

sights and sounds all appear
Nearly everywhere
Fight it if you want
But you'll see this much is clear
Every child already got a wish list
Mom and dad got

Burl Ives - Little Mohee

As I was a-walkin' upon a fine day
I got awful lonesome as the day passed away
I sat down a-musing, alone on the grass
When

Burl Ives - Happy birthday Jesus

Happy birthday, Jesus, it's that time of year
All the lights on the trees say Christmas time is near
Another year's

Burl Ives - Jack was every inch a sailor

Now 'twas twenty five or thirty years
Since Jack first saw the light
He came into this world of woe
One

Burl Ives - The Bold Soldier

Soldier, oh soldier,
A-coming from the plain
He courted a lady for honor and for fame
Her beauty shone so bright
That

Burl Ives - The Sow took The Measles

Boys and girls sometimes get the measles
but in this song even a sow,
which is another name for a lady pig
took

Burl Ives - Count your blessings

When upon life's billows you are tempest tossed,
When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,
Count your many

up this morning lying in Atlanta jail
No one here to love me no one to go my bail
Them prison bars all around me a guard walking by my door
My heart is

Shy child, inside wild
Clung to mum and sucked her thumb
Scared of just about all there is
But gave everything in her song!

Divorce came,

high,
to stomp a mudhole in the shithole they occupy.
Power is willingness to brutalize,
same authority their commander and compatriots rule by.
Walk up

at

The child yelled
Wake up fat bitch
Billy's eyes widen
Boy what the hell is this

The child cries
You was supposed to love me
You was supposed to have my back

the zip lock full of Sinsemilla
All this green is mulla
Lotta  plugs on the payroll
Taking wages from the Trapping
I've been whipping
Lotta sinning
Ives

thinkin’
Don’t want the accolade
This is the 6LACK parade
Smart people follow after me
Is that why y’all attackin’ me?
I want the love child i am the love

promise me escape

Ah ooh ooh
Ah ooh ooh

Reveal your hidden desires
The fearsome will of a child

Why can't you see
What I believe
Is the only sacrifice