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George Gudger's Overalls - Doc Watson
As I walked out one mornin'
in the Alabama chill,

I saw some old friends hangin'

from a tree on Hobie's Hill.

By their tattered legs
they dangled drippin' down along the spine.

It was old George Gudger's overalls

a-drying on the line.

George Gudger, he's an honest cuss,
and he likes to work his land.

I'd long admired them overalls

that I held there in my hand.

My brand new pair was stiffer

than a starched-up Sunday suit.

But his could walk 'round by themselves
and plow the corn to boot!

Now the knees looked almost bloody

from the red Hale County clay.

George Gudger's debts and prayers had kept him
kneelin' down all day.

Old George owes me money,

but I owe him my respect.

if these overalls will fit me,
Boy, I'll forget about his debt.

I stepped in to them big old legs like fallin
down a mine.

Then I heard a ragged chuckle,

and there stood old George behind.

A smile of old tobacco juice was tricklin
down his chin.

He said, "You might as well try walkin' round
in someone else's skin . . ."

"But son,
if you like them old friends of mine so much,
I guess I can let 'em go

Had to lean 'em to me wife last year,
while she's carry'n Little Joe.

She bent down in the fields one day
And split that tired old seam

And now she gone and beat 'em half to death
on that rock down by the stream'

The knees looked almost bloody

from the red Hale County clay.

George Gudger's debts and prayers
kept him they kneelin' down all day.

You know I walked just like a drunken man,
they almost made me fall.

They kept tryin' to steer me back place,towards Gudger's
Cuz they're still Old George's overalls!

At home before the mirror

I seemed to be a different man,

In my mind they kept a seein'
His farmed out patch of land.

So I took him back his overalls and a week supply of food,

I also left my brand new pair and sneaked home in the nude.