Arkansas Traveler

Lyrics

Well, there once was a fiddler He lived in Arkansas Rolled his own tobaccer and he always had a chaw He saddled up his pony and he tightened up the girth And he said "We're gonna travel every country on the Earth!" Well, the Arkansas traveler, he had a winnin' way Everywhere he traveled they would try to make 'im stay Then he'd saw up on his fiddle and he'd take another chaw And say "I wish by golly I was back in Arkansas!" Hе traveled through the еast and he traveled through the west But he couldn't keep from thinkin' bout the land he loved the best Every little while he would take another chaw And say "I wish by golly I was back in Arkansas!" Well, he traveled over China til he got a bait of rice He broke 'em up in Turkey with a pair of loaded dice The British tried to whip 'im but he laid 'em in the sand And he really got a welcome when he got to Ireland Well, the Arkansas traveler, he had a winnin' way Everywhere he traveled they would try to make 'im stay Then he'd saw up on his fiddle and he'd take another chaw And say "I wish by golly I was back in Arkansas!" He traveled through the east and he traveled through the west But he couldn't keep from thinkin' bout the land he loved the best Every little while he would take another chaw And say "I wish by golly I was back in Arkansas!" Well, he lost his tobaccer on the road to Jericho Somebody got his saddle when he got to Mexico In Texas there was trouble but he beat 'im to the draw And he slipped across the border to his home in Arkansas Well, the Arkansas traveler, he had a winnin' way Everywhere he traveled they would try to make 'im stay Then he'd saw up on his fiddle and he'd take another chaw And say "I wish by golly I was back in Arkansas!" He traveled through the east and he traveled through the west But he couldn't keep from thinkin' bout the land he loved the best Every little while he would take another chaw And say "I wish by golly I was back in Arkansas!" "I wish by golly I was back in Arkansas!"