It was only yesterday I thought I'd take a bath in some waterFor a bath I hadn't had in goodness knows whenAnd for that bath I didn't want to pay a quarterSo I run down to the creek and jump right inI hung my clothes upon an apple tree limb Was there I got into an awful fixWhen an old maid come and sat right down beside themAnd there she sat from one o'clock to six In the shade of the old apple treeI was in water right up to my knee I had to lay down while she was aroundTill only my nose you could see Mosquitoes was biting my noseAnd the crawdads was nibbling my toes I lay there all day till she went awayFrom the shade of the old apple tree Here comes the pitiful part boys and girlsIt was only yesterday that Jane and I got hitched I mean marriedYou can bet your life I was a happy groove There was only one thing that filled my heartWith sadness Was parts of her were scattered all over theroom Her glass eye and false teeth was on the mantleAnd on the bed she'd hung a lock of hair And there was only one thing that filled myheart With sadnessThere she pitched her wooden leg upon a chair And it was a limb from that old apple treeI was in water right up to my knee I had to lay down while she was aroundTill only my nose you could see Mosquitoes was biting my noseAnd the crawdads was nibbling my toes I lay there all day till she went awayFrom the shade of the old apple tree Yes I carved out my name and there it wasOn her limb from the old apple tree