Jimmie Driftwood - Lip Fever lyrics

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(Jimmy Driftwood)

When I was a hunter on the wild Buffalo

Down the White River a-courtin' I'd go

I'd find me a lassie on the Old Mississipp'

To ease a bad pain that I had in the lip

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Lip fever, lip fever, it's a terrible thing

It eats on your liver and it gnaws on your brain

It causes a man and his money to part

And lip fever is worse when you have no sweetheart

When I was trader on the Old Rackensack

I courted a squaw and she courted me back

A brave drew his knife and I heard the chief say

He's got the lip fever don't fight him today

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It's caused men to laugh and it's caused men to cry

It's caused men to live and it's caused men to die

It's caused some good women to act like a mule

Of many a wise man, it's made him damn fool

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Oh, what would I give, if tonight I could go

Down the White River from the wild Buffalo

I'd give all my fortunes from travel and trade

To give the lip fever to another fair maid

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