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1. For months and months and months around the
country,
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everybody
sang “Irene, goodnight”,
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but
she wouldn’t go to bed, no matter what they said,
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though
everybody tried with all their might.
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2. She stayed awake while steel guitars were a going,
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in
every honky-tonk she could be seen,
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but
she finally went to bed and covered up her head,
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and
now there’s not a thing can wake Irene.
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Wake up, Irene, you’ve slept too long,
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wake up, Irene, it’s time to move
along !
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Wake up, Irene, and pay for your bed,
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wake up, Irene, or folks will
think you’re dead.
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3. Lot’s of guitar pickers by the dozen
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sang
“Goodnight, Irene” all night and day,
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and
even Crosby too with his bobobabobedo,
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tried
to get Irene to hit the hay.
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4. Well, I guess they finally sang her off to slumber,
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they
must have tried a million times or more,
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but,
oh, my aching back when she finally hit the sack,
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man,
you ought to hear that women snore !
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Wake up, Irene, you’ve slept too long,
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wake up, Irene, it’s time to move
along !
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Wake up, Irene, and pay for your bed,
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wake up, Irene, or folks will
think you’re dead.
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(Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys)