Well way down yonder on Caney Creek I whittled out a fiddle from a wagon seat. I tune fiddle and I rosin my bow. Play a little tune wherever I go. 
(Chorus) Sleepy-eyed John, you better get your britches on Sleepy-eyed John better tie your shoes. Sleepy-eyed John, you better get your britches on. Try to get to heaven ’for the devil gets to you. 
Well, Sleepy-eyed John, he stole a goose The goose he flopped but he couldn’t get loose Said John to the goose if you don’t be still Gonna use you for supper down at Caneyville. 
Now Sleepy-eyed John he had a wooden leg. The wooden leg was nothing but a little wooden peg. With one shoe off and one shoe on He could do the double-shuffle ’till the cows come home. 
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Over the hickory and down the pine The raccoon laughed and the old hound whined. John said ’Sic ’em, and the raccoon laughed. They crossed Green River in a minute and a half. 
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Now I got twenty dollars for to build a fence. I took my money and I ain’t worked since. Sold my buggy and I sold my plow. I wouldn’t take a dollar for my journey now. 
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