The Boy Who Couldn't Hoe Corn

tell you little story and it won't take long a lazy farmer who wouldn't hoe his corn the reason why i never could tell but that young man was always well he planted his corn in the month of june by july it was up to his eyes come september came a big frost and all the young mans corn was lost his cornship had just begun said young man have you hoed some corn well i tried and i tried and i tried in vain but i don't believe i raised one grain he went downtown to his neighbors door he had often been before said pretty little miss will you marry me little miss what do you see? why do you come for me to wed can't even make your own corn grain single i am and will remain a lazy man i won't maintain he turned his back and walked away sayn little miss you woo the day you woo the day that you were born for givin me the devil cause i wouldn't hoe corn