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DICK AND JOHN Sung by: Seth Mize Recorded in Mountain View, AR by George Fisher Click here to listen to the original recording Dick . . . was reared back on his old poor nag. John planned, and Dick, he laughed. Said, "Get a side of bacon, I'll keep the biggest half." When they got there, was late in the night, The meat was in a smokehouse, locked up tight. . . . had a lock that he thought wouldn’t break, But it didn't keep the bacon from the . . . There’s a waltzing couple out on the floor. John broke the lock to the smokehouse door, And John stayed, and the time would come. Dick took the bacon and they made a home run. Started down the road in a terrible rush. Dick said to John, “Better take to the brush.” John said to Dick, “We’d better keep still. And hide it in the bluff on the . . . hill.” Talk about a hiding place which would suit, Down an old . . . field on an old big root. "We’ll take it to the bluff which is higher from the ground, Thirty pounds of bacon’s worth twenty cents a pound." John . . . in a very short time, Said to Dick, ". . . committed a crime That everybody knows . . . We ought to go to Jefferson and wear the striped clothes. |
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