Loudon Wainwright Iii - I'm The Man Who Rode The Mule Around The World lyrics

I promised to meet her when the clock struck twenty-three Down in the village, just four miles out of town She runs the local tavern and the liquor's always free But the pickles sell for nineteen cents a pound Oh, she's my Daisy, she's black eyed and she's crazy The prettiest girl I thought I ever saw Now her breath smells sweet but I'd rather smell her feet For she's my freckle faced consumptive Sara Jane He's the man who rode the mule around the world He's the man who rode the mule around the world I rode in Noah's Ark and I'm as happy as a lark I'm the man who rode the mule around the world I was born about ten thousand years ago And there's nothing on this earth that I don't know I saw Peter, Paul and Moses playing ring around the roses And I can whup the man that says it isn't so He's the man who rode the mule around the world He's the man who rode the mule around the world And for Pharaoh's little kiddies I built all the pyramiddies I'm the man who rode the mule around the world Queen Elizabeth, she fell in love with me We were married in Milwaukee secretly But I rose up and I shook her and went off with General Hooker To shoot mosquitoes down in Memphis, Tennessee He's the man who rode the mule around the world He's the man who rode the mule around the world I set the flags a-flying when George Washington quit lying I'm the man who rode the mule around the world I'm a very highly educated man There's not a thing that I don't understand I've been around so long that I used to sing this song When Abraham and Isaac rushed the can He's the man who rode the mule around the world He's the man who rode the mule around the world Oh, I rode in Noah's Ark, I'm as happy as a lark I'm the man who rode the mule around the world I promised to meet her when the clock struck twenty-three Down in the village just four miles out of town She runs the local tavern and the liquor's always free But the pickles sell for nineteen cents a pound