Young Man Who Wouldnt Hoe Corn

Verse 1
C
I’ll sing you a song and it’s not very long
                                    G   Am
It’s about a young man who wouldn’t hoe corn
    C          G       Am
The reason why I can’t tell
                     G    Am
This young man was always well

Verse 2
   C
He planted his corn in the month of June
                   G    Am
And by July it was knee high
C                        G          Am
First of September there came a big frost
                              G   Am
And all this young man’s corn was lost

Verse 3
   C
He went to the fence and there peeked in
                                   G   Am
The weeds and the grass grew up to his chin
    C                        G       Am
The weeds and the grass they grew so high
                             G  Am
It caused this young man for to sigh

Verse 4
   C
He went down to his neighbour’s door
                        G Am
Where he had often been before
        C                            G     Am
Saying “Pretty little miss, will you marry me?
                           G   Am
Pretty little miss what do you say?”

Verse 5
 C
“Here you are a wanting for to wed
                         G   Am
And cannot make your own cornbread
C               G           Am
Single I am and single I’ll remain
                   G   Am
A lazy man I won’t maintain

Verse 6
        C
Well he went down to a pretty little wider
                           G     Am
And I hope by heck that he don’t get her
    C                      G              Am
She gave him the mitten as sure as you’re born
                   G            Am
And all because he wouldn’t hoe corn.