Standard (EADGBE)
Chorus
Cornbread and butterbeans and you across the table
Eating beans and making love as long as I am able
Hoeing corn and cotton too and when the day is over
Ride a mule, you crazy fool, and love again all over
Goodbye, don't you cry
I'm going to Louisiana
Buy a dog and a big fat hog and marry at Saint-Anna
Sing-song, ding-dong, gonna take a trip to China
Cornbread and butterbeans, and there to Carolina
Chorus
Wearing shoes and drinking booze is going against the Bible
A necktie will make you die and cause you lots of trouble
Streetcars and whiskey bars and kissing pretty horsemen
Whoa man, that's the end of a terrible beginning
Chorus
Can't read and don't care and education's awful
Raising heck and writing checks, that ought to be unlawful
Silk hose and pretty clothes are just a waste of money
I can see how glad you'll be to marry me, my honey