Cornbread Molly

Down in the bird box popped up the red fox and had his bloody way
All dead, sorry, but Cornbread Molly she drove that fox away
The dogs wouldn’t eat her, she would cluck and they’d heed her as she strutted slow ‘round the yard
Anybody cross her a dog or goat or horse sir would make that man die slow and hard
Feathers of white, beady eyes put a fright on anyone she surveyed.
Scratchin’ at nothin’ a-pechin’ and a-puffin’ ain’t bluffin’, man, she’d put you in a shallow grave

Cornbread Molly, oh by golly, everybody gonna lose their seat for
Cornbread Molly will get inside your head and body and move your feet for
Cornbread Molly, be pure folly to say you’re sorry cause she won’t hear it
Cornbread Molly, let your head get noddy and sway your body and you can feel it too

Up on the soap box steps up the white fox and has his bloody way
Waitin in the wings is there a whisperin and a singin there a chicken where a soul should stay?
She tells him how to win and she tells him how to sin and she tells him how to get his praise
She don’t tell him what is really gonna happen to him when she’s thrown away.

Down in the crowd they’re cheerin out loud for the man who’ll save their skins
Cornbread Molly has her eyes fixed on me and she makes them do me in
They don’t know what I didn’t know, but I know now, that’s okay
Raised on a farm with Cornbread Molly, I’ve watched her and her evil ways.

So dance in the crowd and cheer it out loud and pretend you’re good and free
Don’t say I didn’t warn you ‘bout the ditties that Cornbread Molly once sang to me
Once she took a shyin’ and a started with the lyin’ and my body swayed to and fro
My head kinda bobbin with my feverish noggin, and my feet knowin just where she told me to go.

She’ll cut every connection, sear every sweet affection, flush with a proud and maddenin’ hue
Cause once Molly got you ain’t nobody gonna stop you, and she’s gonna kill and capture you
So if you see a chicken a peckin’ and a pickin’ where a chicken ought not to be
Don’t let her eyes meet you and don’t let her talk sweet, you’re gonna see what Cornbread Molly sees.