| Well, me and my baby was a-walkin' down the road
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| Just a-hoppin' along like two little toads
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| I looked down at her; |
| I said, 'What can we do?'
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| She said, 'Let's go someplace where we can hop to the blues!'
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| I said, 'I don’t know a place where we can do such a thing.'
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| She said, 'I know a place, and, man, it’s just a dream!
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| It’s just a little spot on the outside of town
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| Where we can really pick 'em up and put 'em down!'
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| So we went to a place called Everybody’s
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| There I met a little chick called the Tennessee Toddy
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| The reason she was called the Tennessee Toddy
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| Was that she was all legs with a little bitty body
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| But that cat could go, yeah, she was gone, gone, along gone
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| And I’ll tell you all about it in the very next verse of my song
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| She was long and lean like a green string bean:
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| Calm and collected and cool and keen!
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| She was all of this and a whole lot more;
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| When my baby saw me watching her, she threw me out the door
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| And we were gone, yeah, we were gone, along gone
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| And I’ll tell you more about it in the very next verse of my song
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| I took my baby home and she said, 'Good night.'
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| She said, 'Be real good and sleep real tight!'
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| I rushed right back to Everybody’s
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| 'Cause I had to get acquainted with the Tennessee Toddy!
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| So I left, yeah, I was gone, gone, along gone
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| And I’ll tell you more about it in the very next verse of my song
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| I was back there jumpin' with Toddy at three
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| When in walked a gent twice as big as me
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| He looked real mean and mad and sore;
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| He made for me and I made for the door
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| Just a-runnin', yeah, I was gone, gone, along gone
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| And there ain’t no more, so this is the end of my song… |