O.B. McClinton - Obie From Sanatobie lyrics

When I got drafted into the military service I noticed them boys from Mississippi sure was nervous When it was time to march and everybody'd fall in line You could hear the old sarge holler "Roll call time" He said when I call your name son, you give me your hometown That's when all of them stories would float around One from Mississippi you could bet he'd call 'em Iffy Now everybody knew that was in Tennessee But old sarge really got quite a shock When that roll call got around to me This is what I said You can just call me Obie from Sanatobie And you'd better believe that's a Mississippi town We still eat watermelon at the Cake County gin house And we drink home brew when the sun goes down Now all the fellas turned to me and they started to stare But I just kept right on talking with my head in the air Then somebody said boy you're going to have to hide your face Now don't you know you should have told him Some important place And I looked at him and I said Buddy you can call me Obie from Sanatobie And you can tell anybody that you might see My mama gave birth to me in Sanatoria And it's the most important place on earth to me You can just call me Obie from Sanatobie...