(For Verses 1 and 2, single strum for each chord, start the strumming pattern at the 
break and continue until the Verse 6 which goes back to single strum for each chord)

[Verse 1]
           
Tell you a lit

              
tle story and 

              
it won't take 


long,
             
'Bout a lazy f

              
armer who woul

             
dn't hoe his c


orn.
           
The reason why

              
 I never could

 
 tell,
             
That young man

            
 was always we


ll.

{Verse 2]
           
He planted his

              
 corn in the m

        
onth of June.
             
By July it was

           
 up to his eye

s.
           
Come September

              
 there came a 

   
big frost.
             
And all the yo

              
ung man's corn

       
 was lost.


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[Verse 3]
           
His courtship 

         
had just begun

.
             
Said: "Young m

              
an, have you h

          
oed some corn?

"
           
"Well I tried 

              
and I tried, a

              
nd I tried in 


vain.
             
"But I don't b

              
elieve I raise

      
d one grain."

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[Verse 4]
           
He went down t

              
own to his nei

         
ghbour's door.
             
Where he had o

          
ften been befo

re.
           
Sayin': "Prett

              
y little miss,

              
 will you marr

  
y me?"
             
"Little miss w

           
hat do you say

?"

[Verse 5]
           
"Why do you co

             
me for me to w

ed?
             
"You, can't ev

              
en make your o

         
wn corn grain.
           
"Single I am, 

          
and will remai

n.
             
"A lazy man, I

         
 won't maintai

n."

[Verse 6]
           
He turned his 

              
back and walke

  
d away.
             
Saying: "Littl

              
e miss, you'll

         
 rue the day.
           
"You'll rue th

              
e day that you

      
 were born.
             
"For givin' me

              
 the devil 'co

              
s I wouldn't h

  
oe corn."


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