The Boy That Wouldn't Hoe Corn

Drop D Tuning

Dm                                
Tell you a little story and it 
        Bb
won't take long
C                                 
'Bout a lazy farmer who wouldn't 
       Dm
hoe his corn
Dm                           Bb
The reason why I never could tell
C                         Dm
That young man was always well


He planted his corn in the month of 
June
By July it was up to his eyes
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Come September there came a big 
frost
And all the young man's corn was 
lost


His courtship had just begun
Said young man, "Have you hauled 
some corn?"
"Well I tried and I tried and I 
tried in vain,
But I don't believe I raised one 
grain."


Well he went down town to his 
neighbor's door
Where he had often been before
Sayin "Pretty little miss will you 
marry me,
Little miss what do you say?"


"Why do you come for me to wed?
You can't even make your own 
cornbread
Single I am and will remain.
A lazy man I won't maintain."


He turned his back and walked away
Sayin "Little miss you'll rue the 
day.
You'll rue the day that you were 
born
Givin me the devil cause I wouldn't 
hoe corn."