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Cut and ride show
Cotton Eye Joe
Cut in Eye Joe
Cotton Eye Joe
Cut in Eye Joe
Cotton Eye Joe
Cut my toe.
Cotton Eye Joe
Cutting my toe.
Cotton-Eye Joe
Di dadndoo for Cotton Eye Joe
I'd have been married a long time ago.
If it hadn't been for Cotton Eye Joe
I'd have been married a long time ago.
Good afternoon, cracker nine Joe
I be wearin' long time ago
Where did you come from? Where did you go?
Where did you come from cracker nine Joe?
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married long time ago
Where did you come from? where did you go?
Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe?
If it had been for Cotton Eye Joe
I'd have been buried a long time ago
If it hadn't been for Cotton Eye Joe
I'd have been married a long time ago
If it hadn't been for Cotton Eye Joe
I'd have been married a long tae bo
If it hadn't been for Cotton Eye Joe
I'd have been married a long time ago
If it hadn't been for my friend Joe
I'd been buried long time ago.
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd have been married a long time ago.
If it was for Cotton eyed joe It would have the name of a baor
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married a long time ago.
Kirakorinti Cotton Eye Joe I've been married long time ago.
If it hadn't been for Cotton Eye Joe I'd have been married a long time ago.
Ready to come, ready to go
Ready to go to Kathmandu!
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton Eye Joe?
Well I remember Cotton Eye Joe
I've been married a long time ago.
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married a long time ago.
Where did you come from,
where did you grow?
Where did you come from,
where did you go?
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Kathmandu?
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton Eye Joe?
But all he had come for the cumbersome fall.
But all he had come for was having some fun.
Check out, begin for Cotton-Eyed Joe
I been married a long time ago.
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I've been married a long time ago.
Fill out the bin for Cotton-Eye Joe.
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe.
Get out the beautiful Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married a long time ago.
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd been married a long time ago.
Good afternoon there, Cotton-Eye Joe
I've been buried long time ago.
If it hadn't been for Cotton-eye Joe
I'd have been married a long time ago.
Good afternoon, get off of my toe.
If it hadn't been for Cotton-eye Joe
He bought this house from the Liberty Wells.
He brought disaster wherever he went.
Head Ida keeda cottoneyed joe
If it hadn't been for Cotton-eye Joe
Hey-ya da-dib-dib Cotton-eye Joe
I've been married long time ago.
If it hadn't been for Cotton-eye Joe
I'd have been married a long time ago.
I had a friend called Cotton-Eye Joe
We might have been married a long time ago.
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd have been married a long time ago.
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd be buried a long time ago.
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I'd be married a long time.
Straight outta Compton, Cotton-eye Joe
I've been buried long time ago.
If it hadn't been for Cotton-eye Joe
I'd have been married a long time ago.
Where did you come from?
Where did you go?
Where did you come from?
Where did you grow?
Where have I been with Cotton-Eye Joe
I've been there for a long time ago.
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe
I've been married a long time ago.