Tennessee Border #2(with Ernest Tubb) - Red Foley
Written by:Henry Haynes/Jimmy Work/Kenneth Burns
Her eyes was red her name was Helen
Her head looked like a water melon
Her hair was long she had a Toni
Her neck looked like a roll of baloney
Her teeth stuck out so ferm she didn't have much sense
She gnaw an ear of corn right thru' a picket fence
Our marriage license cost a quarter
On the Tennessee border
One night I took her out to see what we could see
Just then I saw her husband and he stood six foot three
He had brass knuckles made to order
Now my teeth are scattered on the Tennessee border
Her eyes was red her name was Hanner
Her nose looked like a big bananer
She weighs so much he had some trouble
He thought that he was seein' double
He put his arm around her and he tried to hug her
But he couldn't get close enough
'Cause she had too much blubber
She was too fat he couldn't court her
Now she wears a girdle 'round her Tennessee border
One night I took her out just across the line
She stubbed her toe and fell in a barrel of turpen tine
Hey Enest
Yeah Ryhm
Whatever
Where is Hanner the old man's daughter
Well the last time I see'd her
She was head for the Tennessee border