Big Mable Murphy

<br>Way back in `29 somewhere in Coffeeville<br>Was a honky tonk named Big Mable Murphy`s<br>She had a sweetheart named Little Melvin<br>And hair would fly between them every night<br>They say Little Melvin got wild on bathub gin<br>Cause it made him grow to almost twice his size<br>He`d try to take over and sass Big Mable<br>And her great big fist would black Little Melvin`s eyes<br>Big Mable Murphy she loved Little Melvin<br>But he never did learn to do just what she said<br>Cause poor Little Melvin woke up every morning<br>With two black eyes and knuckle bumps on his head<br>Then late one rainy night Scarface Mouzziola<br>Came in and started shoving folks around<br>Big Mable Murphy was back in the kitchen<br>So just for fun he shot Little Melvin down<br>Early next morning down by the river<br>Scarface Mouzziola was found real short of breath<br>They say that Scarface had died from a whoopin`<br>He had two black eyes and knuckle bumps on his head<br>Big Mable Murphy`s place raved on until she died<br>And they say sometimes a tear would fill her eye<br>And then she`d whisper Lord I`d give anything<br>If once more I could black Little Melvin`s eyes