Dolly Parton - Old Black Kettle lyrics
Dolly Parton [Dolly Rebecca Parton] Pittman Center, Tennessee, U.S. 🇺🇸
[Dolly Parton - Old Black Kettle lyrics]
Well I remember when I was just little
Mama used to cook in an old black kettle
On an old wood stove she'd
Had since she was wed
Well the oven door was sprung a little bit
So we propped it up with a fork and stick
But that didn't matter 'cause
Mama kept us fed
My Mama and Daddy must have loved each other
'Cause I had eleven sisters and brothers
And the girls worked just as
Hard as the boys did
There was corn to hoe then we'd go hoe it
We might have been poor but we didn't know it
We'd heard that word but we
Didn't know what it meant
Oh we used to have such a good life
And the days that I knew then
Are the happiest I've known
And oh didn't we have such a good time?
It's sad to think the old black kettle's gone
Well there was nothing that
Pleased us any better
Than when we got an occasional letter
From kin folks livin' up north
In some big town
We'd think of all the games we'd play
And we just couldn't hardly wait
When our city cousins said
They was a-comin' down
Now Mama's done away with
The old black kettle
She used to cook in when I was just little
And the door ain't sprung
On her electric range
That little farm and home we had
It ain't there no more and that's too bad
Folks are doin' away with the simple things
And oh we used to have such a good life
And the days that I knew then
Are the happiest I've known
And oh didn't we have such a good time?
It's sad to think the old black kettle's gone
Now, I just mean to say
The simple things are gone
The old black kettle's gone
Mama used to cook in an old black kettle
On an old wood stove she'd
Had since she was wed
Well the oven door was sprung a little bit
So we propped it up with a fork and stick
But that didn't matter 'cause
Mama kept us fed
My Mama and Daddy must have loved each other
'Cause I had eleven sisters and brothers
And the girls worked just as
Hard as the boys did
There was corn to hoe then we'd go hoe it
We might have been poor but we didn't know it
We'd heard that word but we
Didn't know what it meant
Oh we used to have such a good life
And the days that I knew then
Are the happiest I've known
And oh didn't we have such a good time?
It's sad to think the old black kettle's gone
Well there was nothing that
Pleased us any better
Than when we got an occasional letter
From kin folks livin' up north
In some big town
We'd think of all the games we'd play
And we just couldn't hardly wait
When our city cousins said
They was a-comin' down
Now Mama's done away with
The old black kettle
She used to cook in when I was just little
And the door ain't sprung
On her electric range
That little farm and home we had
It ain't there no more and that's too bad
Folks are doin' away with the simple things
And oh we used to have such a good life
And the days that I knew then
Are the happiest I've known
And oh didn't we have such a good time?
It's sad to think the old black kettle's gone
Now, I just mean to say
The simple things are gone
The old black kettle's gone