Peg Leg Jack Song Lyrics and Chords

Peg Leg Jack Song Lyrics and Chords by Tex Morton

Peg Leg Jack

Recorded Tex Morton

Written by Carson Robinson

C

Ol' Peg Leg Jack went out one night to get a little

F

gin

He

C

went down to the landlord's house

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the landlord wasn't

C

in

He rapped he rapped he rapped he rapped he rapped all night in

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vain

When

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all of a sudden a (3 knocks)

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come on the window

C

pane

Up to the window he turned his head and there a maid he

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spied

He

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thought by the way that she (3 knocks)

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that she would be his

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bride

Come down come down said Peg Leg Jack and sit on the porch with

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me

And

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down she come and she sat on the porch

G7

as pretty as ever you

C

see

Oh they billed they cooed they

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kissed and they

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loved

They honeyed and they sweetied and

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they turtle

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doved

They

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babied and they honeyed and lovied my

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pets

C

They kissed and cuddled and

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there they

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sat

Then of a sudden here come her father a-drivin' the village

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hack

With a

C

roar and a bellow and hey young fellow

He

G7

started for Peg Leg

C

Jack

Jack lit out with a yip and a shout for life to him was

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sweet

And

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his old peg leg went (3 knocks)

G7

upon the village

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street

Goodbye my lover the maiden cried I hope you don't get

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killed

The

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old man grabbed his pistol out with

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powder and bullets

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felled

Jack bumped into a big fat lady and fell in a puddle ker

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splash

The

C

old man's pistol went (3 knocks) as

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down the road they

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dashed

Oh they raced they chased they

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hollered and

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bowled

Yelled and they snarled and they

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hollered and

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crowed

They

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raced and they chased and they dodged up and

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down

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Back and forward and

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round and

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round

Jack climbed up into a tree and thought he'd saved his

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skin

But the

C

woodpeckers pecked on his old peg leg

And they

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drove him down

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again

He ran into a neighbor's barn the old man followed him

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in

A

C

mule got sore and whaled away and

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kicked him out

C

again

Jack he ran kersmack into the village cons

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table

Who

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joined in the chase with the girl's old man

The

G7

fat lady and the

C

mule

They chased the sailor around and round and round a big hay

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stack

The

C

old man ran round the other way and he

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grabbed poor sailor

C

Jack

Oh they wrestled and tasseled and their

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eyes got

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black

Jack hit her pappy and the

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pappy hit

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back

They

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cheated and they tumbled and they cursed and they

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swore

They

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barked their knuckles and

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their clothes they

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tore

The old mule cried the fat lady screamed the constable let out a

F

yell

He

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grabbed the old man by the collar and

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locked him in a

C

cell

Peg Leg Jack he hurried back the maiden for to

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wed

But

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found that she had gone and run off with a

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soldier boy in

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stead

Oh poor Jack cried he

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hollered and he

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swore

He grabbed him a ship and

D7

he sailed from

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shore

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Sailed away just as fast as

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sin

And

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that was the last that

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they seen of

C

him

FAQ

Who sang the the song Peg Leg Jack?
- The song Peg Leg Jack was sang by Tex Morton.

Who is Tex Morton?
- Tex Morton (born Robert William Lane in Nelson, New Zealand, also credited as Robert Tex Morton 30 August 1916 - 23 July 1983) was a pioneer of New Zealand and Australian country and western music, vaudevillian, actor, television host and circus performer

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