[ti:Tennesse Border # 2] [ar:Ernest Tubb] [al:The Singer, The Writer, The Country Pioneer] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Tennessee Border No. 2 - Ernest Tubb [00:05.37]Written by:Work Jimmy/Burns Kenneth/Haynes Henry B [00:10.75]Here eyes was red [00:12.24]Her name was helen [00:15.42]Her head looked like a water-melon [00:20.13]Her hair was long [00:21.90]She had a Toni [00:24.85]Her neck looked like a roll of bal-loney [00:29.59]Her teeth stuck out so fer [00:31.90]She didn't have much sense [00:34.22]She could gnaw an ear of corn [00:36.44]Right thru' a picket fence [00:38.97]Our marriage license cost a quarter [00:43.64]On the tennessee border [01:05.68]One night I took her out to see what we could see [01:10.25]Just then I saw her husband [01:12.57]And he stood six-foot three [01:14.98]He had brass knuckles-all made to order [01:19.51]Now my teeth are scattered on the tennessee border [01:28.84]Her eyes was red her name was hanner [01:33.46]Her nose looked like a big bananer [01:38.01]She weighs so much he had some trouble [01:42.64]He thought that he was seein' double [01:47.31]He put his arm around her and he tried to hug her [01:51.94]But he couldn't get close enough [01:54.09]'Cause she had too much blubber [01:56.40]She was too fat he couldn't court her [02:01.00]Now she wears a girdle 'round her tennessee border [02:10.30]One night I took her out just across the line [02:14.87]She stubbed her toe and fell in a barrel of turpen-tine [02:19.73]Hey young man [02:20.63]Yeah right here [02:21.51]What and where it happened [02:22.21]And where is my daughter [02:23.76]Well the last time I saw her red [02:26.05]She was head more [02:28.99]Tennessee border