Beedle Um Bum - Hokem Boys, Blind Willie McTell, etc.

In the Ozark town of Fayetteville
lives a girl named Lizzie
She runs an eat shop on the block
she always gives good gimmie
She serves a meal that comes 'tween tasty buns
you couldn't resist but trying
Every day down on Dickson Street
you can hear Ms. Lizzie crying

Oh my beedle um bum
Come and see me if you ain't had none.
Make a dumb man holler make a lame man run
You'll be sorry if you don't get some
Oh my beedle um bum, my beedle um bum,
Best beedle um in the hills of Arkansas

Every day about ten o'clock
She goes down to Frisco station
And all the folks coming into town
She gives a little invitation.
Beedle um hot, beedle um cold
She sho' keep it selling!
And every day down on Dickson Street
You can hear Ms. Lizzie yelling

Oh my beedle um bum
Come and see me if you ain't had none
Cause it ain't too small and it ain't too wide
Just a comfortable medium size
My beedle um bum, Oh my beedle um bum,
best beedle um in the hills of Arkansas

I was singing this ditty when Lizzy's man
Came round with his 45
He said any man insults my gal
won't be leaving here alive.
Well I'm just singing about a sandwich, brother
I never mean to be unkind.
If you think this song's about something else
You might have a dirty mind

Oh my beedle um bum
Come and see me if you ain't had none.
Make a sad man happy make a meek man roar
Get a little bit and you'll want some more
of my my beedle um bum, my beedle um bum,
Best beedle um in the hills of Arkansas

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