Don't eat green meat it ain't good for you

you know it killed your brother, killed your sister too

even fresh fried chicken on new-mown sand

can't beat red beans eaten outa your hand



Oh Mabel, Mabel! You know I love you gal but I'm not able

Mabel, oh Mabel, please get off the kitchen table



Don't slice no onions, don't peel no grape

dream about banana slice nor sniff around short cake

and if on a winter's day you find your sundial's wrong

you'll know the weather is what's brought it on



Oh Mabel, Mabel! You know I love you gal but I'm not able

Mabel, oh Mabel, please get off the kitchen table



Put the peas in the pot, put the pot on the hot

In the cellar lies my wife, in my wife there's a knife

so tote that hammer, lift that pick

and banish inhibition with a pogo stick



Oh Mabel, Mabel! You know I love you gal but I'm not able

Mabel, oh Mabel, please get off the kitchen table