Barefoot Nellie

Porter Wagoner

Written by Jimmie Davis and Don Reno

Key of C · Chords: I II IV V

Verse 1

C
Redheaded peckerwood sittin' on a limb
F
Ma said chicken but Nellie shot him
D7                 G7
Wrung his neck and picked him clean
    C
The funniest chicken I've ever seen

Verse 2

                      F
Hey (barefoot Nellie) ho (barefoot Nellie)
G7                                       C
Hey (barefoot Nellie) you're the one for me

Verse 3

Now Nellie put on her Sunday dress
F
She thought that it would look the best
D7             G7
Made out of an old feed sack
    C
Hog feed rope right on the back

Verse 2

                      F
Hey (barefoot Nellie) ho (barefoot Nellie)
G7                                       C
Hey (barefoot Nellie) you're the one for me

Verse 4

Now Nellie went to town one day
F
A ridin' on a bale of hay
D7           G7
Sold a man a trip to Mars
    C
Now she sits behind the bars

Verse 2

                      F
Hey (barefoot Nellie) ho (barefoot Nellie)
G7                                       C
Hey (barefoot Nellie) you're the one for me

Verse 5

Now Nellie's got a pair of shoes
F
And she can wear 'em if she choose
D7                 G7
Why the heck she's got the blues
C
Wants to wear a size twenty-two

Verse 2

                      F
Hey (barefoot Nellie) ho (barefoot Nellie)
G7                                       C
Hey (barefoot Nellie) you're the one for me

Verse 6

Take a little hog walk in the lot
F
He made three tracks just one dot
D7                     G7
Nellie said who do you think I am
C
That hog's missin' about one ham

Verse 2

                      F
Hey (barefoot Nellie) ho (barefoot Nellie)
G7                                       C
Hey (barefoot Nellie) you're the one for me

Verse 2

                      F
Hey (barefoot Nellie) ho (barefoot Nellie)
G7                                       C
Hey (barefoot Nellie) you're the one for me