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What's that tastes like gravy mama says I know you wanna know
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What's that taste like gravy, worryin' your soul
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Say kill that chicken and cook him down low,
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Says cook that chicken a sweet jelly roll
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What's that tastes like gravy? Mama says I know you wanna know

[Verse 2]
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What's that tastes like gravy mama says I know you wanna know
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Uncle John in Alabam', way down in Dixieland
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Said he caught a possum and he named him Joe and he put him in his barn
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Said he cooked that possum and he took him down low
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And the grease came running from Joe Joe Joe
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What's that tastes like gravy? Mama says I know you wanna know

[Verse 3]
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Well I was born in Alabam', way down in Dixieland
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Oh, the people come from miles around just to hear that shucking corn
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Said she sounds so low, sounds so slow
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Sounds just like she couldn't blow
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What's that tastes like gravy? Mama says I know you wanna know

[Verse 4]
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Oh, skeedle-ee-de, da-lee-da, beedle-ee-bum, I said mama says I know you wanna know
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Oh, my skeedle-ee-da, beedle-ee-da, beedle-ee-bum, I said you don't know the road
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Great life last year when the times were tough
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I was laying in the coal yard struttin' my stuff
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What's that tastes like gravy? Mama says I know you wanna know