The Folk Singer Song

Take a feller who looks so weird

Torn t-shirt and a mangy beard

Dressed in dirty dungarees

Sickin' out is his bony knees

Twelve-string guitar in his hands

I think he strung it up with rubber bands

When he sings a blue tail fly

He makes Burl Ives pucker up and cry

When you do that, what have you got?

You got a folk singer, yes that's what

At Miami University

He took four years to learn to water ski

Now he sings in a coffee shop

The coffee's good but his singin's not

He hates birds 'cause he told me

He likes to sing on top of Old Smokey

Sings about a girl he knew

And what happened in the foggy dew

He let Tom Dooley save his face

'Cause Barry Mason went and took his case

So Ma and Pa, take our advice

Before you buy guitars think twice

The kids are surely gonna end up broke

There's more folk singers now than there are folk