FREEBOOTIN'
From the film: "Tom Sawyer" aka "A Musical Adaptation of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer" - 1973
(Robert B. Sherman / Richard M. Sherman)
Johnny Whitaker (Tom Sawyer) & Jeff East (Huckleberry Finn)


Tom and Huck:
Freebootin',
Freebootin'
Kickin' up our feet in the sand
Freebootin',
Freebootin'
Livin' off the fat of the land

Got no doors to shut us in
We got no ties that bind
Rollin' down the road to sin
Without no never mind

Huck:
Like a big fat cow
A-chewin' on her cud

Tom:
Like a cat fish grubbin'
In the bottom of the mud

Huck:
We're happy as a coot,
And we don't give a hoot

Tom and Huck:
Ain't we fine?

Freebootin',
Freebootin'
Kickin' up our feet in the sand
Freebootin',
Freebootin'
Livin' off the fat of the land

Nobody's tellin' us when to rise
Or when to sleep or eat
Nobody's here to criticize
Or whack us on the seat

Like a hog in the slime,
We're wallerin' our time
Doin' what we're doin',
And it ain't no crime
We don't give a dang
Let the world go hang
Ain't life sweet?
Freebootin',
Freebootin'
Kickin' up our feet in the sand
Freebootin',
Freebootin'
Livin' off the fat of the land

We're thick as thieves
And tough as mules
We don't know wrong from right
Got no bounds,
Got no rules
We don't know day from night

We got no worries,
We just don't care
Mean as a buzzard
And hungry as a bear
Better steer clear,
And you better beware
We may bite!



(Transcribed by Carlene Bogle - April 2004)