OLD RATTLER 
Grandpa Jones


Old Rattler was a good old dog; 
As blind as he could be
Ev'ry night 'bout supper time; 
I believe that dog could see.

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Here! Rattler, Here! Here!; Here! Rattler! Here!
Call old Rattler from the barn; Here! Rattler! Here!

Old Rattler tree'd the other night; 
And I tho't he'd tree'd a 'coon
When I come to find out; 
He was barkin' at the moon.

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Well, grandma had a yeller hen; 
We set her as you know
We set her on three buzzard eggs; 
And hatched out one old crow.

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Grandpa had a muley cow; 
She was muley when she's born
It took a jaybird forty year; 
To fly from horn to horn.

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Now if I had a needle and thread; 
As fine as I could sew
I'd sew my sweetheart to my back; 
And down the road I'd go

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Old Rattler was a smart old dog; 
Even tho' he was blind
He wouldn't hurt one single thing; 
Tho' he was very fine.

One night I saw a big fat 'coon; 
Climb up in a tree
I called old Rattler right away; 
To get 'im down fer me.

But Rattler wouldn't do it; 
Because he liked that 'coon
I saw them walkin' paw in paw; 
Later by the light of the moon.

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Now old Rattler's dead and gone; 
Like all good dogs do
You better not act a dog yourself; 
Or you'll be goin' there too.

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(Contributed by John Sanders - May 2002)