crooked little house - jimmie rodgers

Don't Let The Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man)
Written by: Ed E. Miller, Ersel Hickey
Comments: Verses are traditional. "Mother Goose poem", Halliwell's Nursery Rhymes, 1842.


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Lyrics:
There was a crooked man and he had a crooked smile
He had a crooked sixpence and he walked a crooked mile
He had a crooked cat and he had a crooked mouse
They all lived together in a crooked little house

(Ah, ah) Oh, no, don't let the rain come down
(Ah, ah) Oh, no, don't let the rain come down
(Ah, ah) Oh, no, don't let the rain come down
My roof's got a hole in it and I might drown
(Oh, yes, my roof's got a hole in it and I might drown)

Well, this very crooked man and who had a crooked smile
Took his crooked sixpence and he walked a crooked mile
He bought some crooked nails then he took the crooked bat
He tried to fix his roof with a rat-tat-tat-tat-tat 

Well this crooked little man with this crooked cat and mouse
They all live together in a crooked little house
He has a crooked door he has a crooked latch
He has a crooked roof with a crooked little patch

Singers:
1. Crooked Little House Jimmie Rodgers 1960 2. Don't Let the Rain Come Down The Brothers Four October 1964 3. Crooked Little Man (Don't Let the Rain Come Down) The Serendipity Singers (billboard hot 100) 1964 4. Crooked Little Man Trini Lopez January 1965

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