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Lyrics for Johnny And Old Mr Henly by Unknown:
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| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Johnny And Old Mr Henly | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 174 | | | | Lyrics: | JOHNNY AND OLD MR. HENLY
Johnny meets his honest neighbor
What he told him was to
plague him:
"I saw your wife and I saw no more,
With another man and they closed the
door."
Johnny went home in great wonder,
Bumping on the door like thunder.
"Who
is that?" Mr. Henly cried,
"'Tis my husband; you must hide."
His wife held the door
while old Mr. Henly,
Jumping and jerking, went up the chimney.
Johnny came in and looked
all around;
Not a soul could there be found.
Johnny sat down by the fireplace
weeping;
Up the chimney he got to peeping.
There he spied the frightened soul
Sitting
across the pot-rack pole.
Johnny reached up and really catched him
Like a raccoon
dog he fetched him,
Round and around he mopped the floor
Then kicked him out at the open
door.
Through that door poor Johnny kicked him
Henly felt every lick that hit
him.
"Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny forebear ye
Never any more you'll see
me."
Henly ran with all his power
Making forty miles an hour;
Down the road and
over the fence
No one has ever seen him since.
Note: One of a large number of
variants usually titled Will the
Weaver, Pot-Rack Pole or Jumping and Jerking that have
been
collected all over North America.RG
From Folk Songs of the Blue Ridhe
Mountains, Shellan
Collected from John Vass, Hillsville, VA 1959
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