Well it turned out like Jill and Jack
Rod died and lies beneath the sod
A sweet old lady was eighty-four
Is in the farmer's almanac, it says
He looked at me and then he sat right back
'Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death'
She said, "You gotten lipstick on your shirt"
Now from overwork she's on the other shore
In the farmer's almanac, it says
The little boy followed the honeybee
He got stung but got the honey free
'Visitors and fish smell after three days'
And it says in the farmer's almanac, it says
And it says in the farmer's almanac, it says
The answer came in white and black
'God gives us the darkness so we can see the stars'
I just look at other women that's all I do"
And when he got caught he couldn't stand
'If a man could have half his wishes he could double his trouble'
'Lies have to be covered up, truth can run around naked'
It says in the farmer's almanac, it says
'In rivers and bad government the lightest things flow to the top'
Consolation for the things you lack
He said, "Honey, you know I'm true
He came home three hours late from work
For God did not believe in Rod
And it flew straight to the honey tree
Sometimes some women will look back
I had a real slow shoeshine man
I said you don't pop that rag like some of 'em can
But his barn burned down with winter near
I sat down at a shoeshine stand
When her kinfolks came for a month or more
Then she caught him with her best friend Peggy Sue
But it says in the farmer's almanac, it says
Our leader was a silver tongued man
But it says in the farmer's almanac, it says
Much too late was y'all come back
Life is a troubled and a weary track
He deceived the people of the land
Rod said, "I don't believe in God"
'The trouble with the world today is
Said, "I had a flat and fell in the dirt"
And it says in the farmer's almanac, it says
'There's a lot of difference in window shoppin' and shop liftin''
It's a little off-beat and a little off-track
