Country Bumpkin (video)

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1. He walked into the bar and parked his lanky frame

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upon a tall barstool,

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and with a long soft Southern drawl said,

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"I'll just have a glass of anything that's cool".

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A barroom girl with wise and knowing eyes slowly

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looked me up and down,

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and she said, "I wonder how on earth

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that country bumpkin found his way to town."

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And I said, "Hello, country bumpkin !

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How's the frost out on the pumpkin?"

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"I've seen some sights but, man, you're something,

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Where'd ya come from, country bumpkin?"

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2. Just a short year later in a bed of joy-filled

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tears and death-like pain,

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into this wondrous world of many wonders

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another wonder came.

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That same woman's face was wrapped up a raptured look of

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love and tenderness,

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as I marveled at the soft and warm

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and cuddly boy-child feeding at her breast.

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And I said, "Hello, country bumpkin,

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fresh as frost out on the pumpkin!"

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"I've seen some sights but, babe, you're something,

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Mamma loves her country bumpkin."

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3. Forty years of hard work later in a simple, quiet and

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peaceful country place,

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the heavy hand of time had not erased

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the raptured wonder from my woman's face.

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She was lying on her deathbed knowing fully well her

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race was nearly run,

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but she softly smiled and looked into

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the sad eyes of her husband and her son.

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And I said, "So long, country bumpkin,

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the frost is gone now from on the pumpkin.”

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"I've seen some sights and life's been something,

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see you later, country bumpkin. See you later, country bumpkin."

(Loretta Lynn)