Shortnin' Bread

                                                                                                                                        Midi 1 (G120)

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Three lit-tle chil-dren lay-in' in  the bed.

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Two were sick and the oth-er 'bout dead.

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Sent for the doc-tor, the doc-tor said,

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"Feed them lit-tle chil-dren on short-nin' bread."

 

 

Chorus (Repeat after each verse)

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Mam-ma's lit-tle ba-by loves short-nin', short-nin',

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Mam-ma's lit-tle ba-by loves short-nin' bread.

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Mam-ma's lit-tle ba-by loves short-nin', short-nin',

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Mam-ma's lit-tle ba-by loves short-nin' bread.

 

Verse 2

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When those lit-tle chil-dren lay-in' in the bed

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Heard that talk a-bout short-nin' bread,

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They popped up well and star-ted to sing,

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Skip-ping 'round the room doin' the pige-on wing.

 

Verse 3

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Put on the skil-let!   Put on the lid!

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Mam-ma's gon-na make us some short-nin' bread.

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That's not all she's go-ing to do,

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Mam-ma's gon-na cook us some co-coa too!

 

Verse 4

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I snuck to the kitch-en, picked up the lid,

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I filled my poc-kets full of short-nin' bread.

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I winked at the pret-ty lit-tle girl and said,

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"Ba-by, how'd you li-ke some short-nin' bread?

 

Verse 5

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Got caught with the skil-let.  Got caught with the lid.

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Got caught with my mouth full of short-nin' bread.

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Six months for the skil-let. Six months for the lid.

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Six months in the jail eat-in' short-nin' bread.