Old Joe Clark - Traditional American Folk Song - Mountain Banjo

Old Joe Clark is a fun traditional American folk song to sing and play on the banjo or any other instrument. There`s a lot of silly and funny lyrics in this song!

Old Joe Clark - lyrics
Two finger thumb lead or clawhammer banjo
Banjo tuning in standard but tuned down to low C
Arranged by Dan D. Dirges

Old Joe Clark's a fine old man
Tell you the reason why
He keeps good likker 'round his house
that Good old Rock and Rye

Old Joe Clark, the preacher's son
Preached all over the plain
The only text he ever knew
Was High, low, Jack and the game

Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark
Fare thee well, I say
Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark
I'm a going away

Old Joe Clark had a yellow cat
She would neither sing or pray
She stuck her nose in the butermilk jar
And washed her sins away

Old Joe Clark he had a house
Fifteen stories high
And every story in that house
Was filled with chicken pie

Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark
Fare thee well, I say
Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark
I'm a going away

I went down to Old Joe's house
He invited me to supper
I stumped my toe on the table leg
And stuck my nose in the butter

Now I wouldn't marry a widow
Tell you the reason why
She'd have so many children
They'd make those biscuits fly

Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark
Fare thee well, I say
Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark
I'm a going away

Sixteen horses in my team
The leaders they are blind
And every time the sun goes down
There's a pretty girl on my mind

Eighteen miles of mountain road
And fifteen miles of sand
If I ever travel this road again
I'll be a married man

Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark
Fare thee well, I say
Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark
I'm a going away

Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark
Fare thee well, I say
Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark
I'm a going away
I'm a going away
I'm.......a going away