Oldtime Stringband

First time that I met her, I never will forget,
She took my alabaster box and pressed it to her lips.
Then she answered sweetly, you're quite a handsome chap,
She broke my suspenders when she sat down on my lap.

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Bye-bye, Malinda, don't you weep for me,
Goin' away to leave you way down in Tennessee.
I'll be back, Malinda, when the corn is on the ear,
To sing and play the banjo and spy Malinda dear.

Her head is like a beer keg, her shoulders like hams,
Her eyes are like the owl at night and her voice is never calm.
Stands seven feet and over, her hair is very red,
Got to climb a bucket just to kiss her forehead.

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Wish I was an elephant, so happy light and free,
I'd take Malinda in my trunk and hold her next to me.
Wish I was an aligator, and when she went to swim,
I'd open up my aligate and take Malinda in.

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