Cornbread and butterbeans and you across the table*

Eatin' beans and makin' love as long as I am able

Growin' corn and cotton too and when the day is over

Ride the mule and cut the fool and love again all over

Hoein' corn and cotton too I'm going to Louisiana

To buy a coon dog and a big fat hog and marry Susie Anna

Same song ding dong I'll take a trip to China

Cornbread and butterbeans then back to North Carolina

Wearin' shoes and drinking booze it goes against the Bible

A necktie will make you die and cause you lots of trouble

Streetcars and whiskey bars and kissing pretty women

Women yeah that's the end of a terrible beginning

I can't read and don't care and education's awful

Raising heck and writin' checks it ought to be unlawful

Silk hose and frilly clothes is just a waste of money

Come with me and stay with me and say you

Ll be my honey