If you want to get to heaven
Let me tell you how to do it
Grease your feet in a little mutton suet
Slide right out of the devil's hand
And ooze right over in the Promised Land
Go easy. Make it easy. Go greasy
Standin' in the corner by the mantelpiece
Up in the corner by a bucket of grease
I greased my feet with a little axle grease
Went slippin' up and down that mantelpiece
Huntin' matches. Cigarette stubs. Chewin' tobacco. Left overs
Make up the beds, gal, make 'em up nice
Clean out the house, and chase out the mice
Set up the table, and set it up right
'Cause old Preacher Johnson's gonna be here tonight
He's a chicken eater. Loves cakes. Loves the sisters, too
Standin' on the corner, standin' like a man
Standin' on the corner with a bucket in my hand
Standin' on the corner with a bucket in my hand
Waitin' for sop from the white folk's hand
'La**es. Sweetlin' potatoes. Cold biscuits
Down in the wildwood, settin' on a log
My finger on the trigger and my eye on a hog
I pulled that trigger and the gun said "blip,"
Jumped on that hog with all my grip
Earin' hog eye. Love chittlins
Behind the henhouse the other night
It was awful dark and I had no light
The farmer's dog run out by chance
And he bit a big hole in the seat of my pants
I jumped gullies. Robe bushes. Plowed ground. Felt funny
Behind the henhouse on my knees
I thought I heard a chicken sneeze
Only a rooster sayin' his prayers
And givin' out hymns to the hens upstairs
Just preachin'. Hens a-singin'. Little young chickens just a-hopin'
They put me in the jailhouse on my knees
All they give me was a pan of peas
The peas was red and the meat was fat
And I got stuck on the jailhouse just for that
Go sa**y. Impudent. Wanted to fight
Now I been here and I been there
I rambled round 'most everywhere
Purtiest little gal I ever did see
A-walkin' up and down by the side of me
Mouth wide open. Catchin' flies. Knows I'm crazy
There ain't no use of me workin' so hard
I got a woman in the white folk's yard
When she k** a chicken she saves me the head
She thinks I'm workin' but I'm lyin' in the bed
Sleepin'. Havin' a good time. Dreamin' about her
There ain't no use of me workin' so hard
I got a woman in the white folk's yard
When she k** a chicken she saves me the feet
She thinks I'm workin' but I'm loafin' the street
Havin' a good time. Talkin' about her. To two other women