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
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 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
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 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!