Bloody Bones - Live at Sevier County High School, Sevierville, TN - April 1970

This is a story that I wrote

And I know that all around Sevierville

And round in the mountains people have big families

And it's kind of hard to get them in the bed at night

So, I guess I'll love you for me with bloody bones

And scratches and the Boogerman, right?

Yeah

But I'd like to do a song now that

Not a song, I'd like to tell my little story

And it goes like this

Now dedicate this to my mama

Even though she meant well

She done this to us

Now, there was twelve of us kids

And all day long with fighting with scratch

And we scratching with fight

My mama never had any trouble getting us all in the bed at night

Call her stereo mama, bless her heart

She done the best she could

But mama had the awfulest way of making us be good

That she tell us that raw head bloody bones is waiting just outside

That he'd come in and get us if any of us cried

And it scares all to death

The dogs outside, there're barkin'

Hoooo!

Never time that we'd hear daddy cough with that blody bones is harking

Oh me!

And when we got up to somethin' mean

My mama, she smelled a rat

And she scratch on the wall and she say

Lisa! What was that?

Then we'd all get scared

And we dive underneath the cover

And we'd make a little air hole

To stick our nose out

Just enough so we wouldn't smother

And air or not, one of the kids is wetting the bed

But mama, she never did understand why

But I wasn't about to get out of bed and take a change

I wasn't about to get out of bed and take a change on steppin' on old scratch off

Oh me!

Well, I get in the bed, you see and I cover up my head

And I put my fingers in my ears

So I couldn't hear the Boogerman that was breathin' in under the bed

'Cuz I know that if I got out of that bed

That the devil would get me because I heard of that

Oh me!

And now that we'd sleep four and five in the bed

And we get scared with all creature

And it be below zero in our old house

But we just be burn up

And when we did drift off to sleep

With this lay there with brought with mountain

'Cuz dreamin' 'bout that bloody bones and that scratch eyes and that Boogerman

There was a beast in our home, sou say

And now that's been a long long time ago

And now that I'm grown

You know, I still ain't sure that there's not a Boogerman

And a scratch eyes and a raw head bloody bone

Thank you!