[ti:The Old Man Below]
[ar:Traditional]
[au:Traditional (sheet credits Gaither Carlton & Doc Watson)]
[by:IMMHA Lyrics Library IMMHA-L221]

[Intro]
If you want to get married I'll tell you where to go
Go to the old man that lives down below
The old folks is gone and the girls all at home
They want to get married but their heads not combed

Children, children a cryin' for bread
Go and build on a fire just as high as your head
Then you rake in the ashes for to lie in the dough
And the name that you give them is dough boy dough

They call me into supper and I thought I'd go eat
I went to the table for to carve on the meat
Had an old dull knife and I had not a fork
I sawed about an hour and I never made a mark
[Break]

I sawed another hour and I got him in my plate
Then the girls said, "Young man, I think you'd better wait
Young man, young man, you better run
For the old man's a-comin' with his double barreled gun"

The old man a-grinnin' as he came a-walkin' in
Patches on his britches and whiskers on his chin
He had an old hat that he wore the year around
But he had neither hat nor the brim, nor the crown

I stood right there just as brave as a bear
And I wiggled my finger in the old man's hair
Then he says, "Young man, I think you're the best
Pull up a chair, boy, and set down and rest

[Repeat 1st verse]