CORNBREAD, 'LASSES AND SASSAFRAS TEA
(Lloyd George / Roland Sullivan)


Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys - 1946
The Lilly Brothers - 1961
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - 1968
The Freight Hoppers - 1996

Also recorded by:
Lonzo & Oscar with The Winston County Pea Pickers





Come here girls and listen to my noise
Don't you marry an Arkansas boy
Marry a feller from Tennessee, eat
Cornbread, and 'lasses and sassafras tea
Cornbread, and 'lasses and sassafras tea

Traveled all over this whole wide world
Eat a lotta cookin' from a lotta pretty girls
But there's none like Tennessee
With cornbread, and 'lasses and sassafras tea
Cornbread, 'lasses and sassafras tea

Grandpa Snazzy lives on the hill
He ain't never died and I guess he never will
The neighbors all around say he's ninety three
The old man's happy as he can be eatin'
Cornbread, 'lasses and sassafras tea
Cornbread, 'lasses and sassafras tea

Old Uncle Jim on his dyin' bed
He called 'em all around and then he said
My last request just let it be
Cornbread, 'lasses and sassafras tea
Cornbread, 'lasses and sassafras tea

Come here girls and listen to my noise
Don't you marry an Arkansas boy
Marry a feller from Tennessee eat
Cornbread, and 'lasses and sassafras tea
Cornbread, and 'lasses and sassafras tea

Cornbread, and 'lasses and sassafras tea