I was born in Arkansas,
me mammy was a squaw,
Pappy hailed from Timbuktu..
There's one thing I recall
that 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 rusting and corroding,
'twas a ghastly shade o' 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
In to the river flowing gently by
Soon my Pappy called my name,
he yelled "Hey, what's ya game?"
Why did you shove our privy in the drink
Well 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 straight away
And he because he told the truth,
that honest youth foresooth
His Pappy didn't punish him that day
Well, me being a little green,
I thought I'd best come clean
So I told my Pappy how I sank that shack
Well, with a rebel cry of glee
he hauled me o'er his knee
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
Well, George Washington's pappy, he,
wasn't sitting in the tree
When that little bastard
went and chopped it down