The wonders of Google. My Dad could only remember a few lines from his childhood related this 1948 song “I open the door an’ the flies swarm in. I shut the door an’ I’m sweatin’ again” I told him to Google those few words and up came the whole song in seconds. Something lost for 74 years is found in a flash, what interesting times we live in.
Sun comes up and the sun goes down.
The hands on the clock keep goin’ around.
I just get up an’ it’s time to lay down.
Life gets teejus, don’t it?My shoe’s untied but I don’t really care.
I ain’t a-figurin’ on goin’ nowhere.
I’d have to wash an’ comb my hair.
That’s just wasted effort.Water in the well’s gettin’ lower an’ lower.
Can’t take a bath for six months or more
But I’ve heard it said, and it’s true I’m sure,
That too much bathin’ll weaken’ you.I open the door an’ the flies swarm in.
I shut the door an’ I’m sweatin’ again.
I move too fast an’ I crack my shin.
Just one durn thing after t’other.My old brown mule, he must be sick.
I jabbed him in the rump with a pin on a stick.
He humped his back, but he wouldn’t kick.
There’s somethin’ cockeyed somewhere.There’s a mouse a-chawin’ on the pantry door.
He’s been at it for at least a month or more.
When he gets through there he’s sure goin’ to be sore.
[Chuckles] There ain’t a durn thing in there.Hound dog howlin’, he’s so folorn.
Laziest dog that ever was born.
He’s howlin’ ’cause he’s a-sittin’ on a thorn —
Just too tired to move over.Tin roof leaks an’ the chimney leans.
There’s a hole in the seat of my ol’ blue jeans.
An’ I’ve et the last of them pork an’ beans.
Jus’ can’t depend on nuthin’.Cow’s gone dry an’ the hens won’t lay.
Fish quit bitin’ last Saturday.
Troubles pile up, day by day —
Now I’m gettin’ dandruff.Grief an’ misery, pains an’ woes.
Debts an’ taxes, an’ so it goes.
And I think I’m gettin’ a cold in the nose …
A-choo! Ah, life gets tasteless, don’t it?
