This is a story 'bout a man from Talkum County
 He had a dog named Bobby Shannon
 You could hear him chanting every day about sundown
 Spending all his off time in the cremation ground

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 Oh no, no, no Bobby
 I can't see you Bobby
 Bobby Shannon

 He had a picture in a Shrine of a Monkey
 From an old story where he jumped over the sea
 He could be as big as a giant
 Or as small as a flea
 Old Bobby just laughed and he wink ed at me

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 Now he's covered with ashes and covered with sweat
 He looked like a man who had lost a bet
 He glanced around once at the burning ground
 Then he took off running like a scalded hound

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