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I was born in Arkansas me mammy studied law
Pappy came from Timbuktu
There's one thing I recall I hated most of all
Was that little green shed our Loo

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It had a cedar shingle roof I swear that was the truth
Hinges all rusted and corroding, ’Twas a ghastly shade of green
The worst you've ever seen, it stood there at the bottom of the garden

Well one day when I was six I was chopping at some sticks
When a nasty little gleam came to my eye
I ran down to the John and shoved it off the lawn
Into the river flowing gently by

Soon my Pappy yelling my name he asked what was my game
Why did you shove our privy in the drink
When then I shook with fear and shed a little tear
I said it wasn't me I didn't think

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Then my Pappy told to me how George Washington felled the tree
Then he went and owned up right away
And he because he told the truth that honest youth forsooth
His Pappy didn't punish him that day

Well me being a little green I thought I best come clean
So I told my Pappy how I sank that shack
Well with a rebel cry of glee he hauled o'er his knee
And proceeded to wop me blue and black

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Since I hadn't told a lie I asked my Pappy why
He sat there and he answered with a frown
George Washington's Pappy he wasn't sitting in the tree
When that little bastard went and chopped it down