1: Now, I don't know, but I believe

The automobile's ruined the country.

Let's go back to the horse and buggy

And try to save some money!



Ref: Take off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve.

Jordan is a hard road to travel!

Take off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve.

Jordan is a hard road to travel, I believe!



2: The public schools and the highways

Are raising quite an alarm!

Y' get a country boy educated just a little

Well, he ain't a-gonna stay on the farm.



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3: I know a man who's an evangelist.

His tabernacle's always full,

People keep coming from miles around,

Just to hear him shoot the bull!



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4: You can talk about your evangelists.

You can talk about Henry Ford, too,

Henry's shaking more Hell out of folks

Than all the evangelists do!



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5: I've been to the East and I've been to the West.

I've been to old Virginny.

I run my head in a hornets' nest

And I never got stung on any!



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6: It rained 40 days and it rained 40 nights

And it rained on the Alleghany Mountains

It rained 40 horses and a Dominecker mule

And they landed on the other side of Jordan.



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