Big Muddy Folk Festival 2015 Open Mike

Barney Hartline performing Ain't it a Wonderful Day and The Stranger

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Ain’t It A Wonderful Day
Lyrics by Sam Stone

I love waking up to the fresh morning dew
I love looking up at the sky when it’s new
The birds in the Trees are awakening too
Ain’t it a wonderful Day?

Chorus:
Ain’t it a wonderful day?
Oh what a wonderful day
My heart is so happy and all I can say
Is ain’t it a wonderful day?

I love every day when the sun’s shining bright
Can’t wait for the stars that will shine here tonight
The moon on my pond what a glorius sight
And ain’t it a Wonderful Day?
Repeat chorus
I love every day that is blessed with the rain
The peckety peck on my old window pane
The hooty toot toot of some far away train
And ain’t ot a wonderful day?
Repeat chorus
I love every day that I spend here with you
‘cause when we’re together don’t care what we do
And it makes me so glad that you feel that way too
And ain’t it a wonderful day?
Repeat chorus

The Stranger

From the West there came a stranger
His story I will tell
And the reason that they called him stranger
Is because he kissed a cow
You might think kissing a cow is something pretty strange
But oh my friend
Have you ever spent six months out on the range?
Well the days they’re long
And the nights they’re cold
And a fella gets lonely
And a fella grows old And a fella well he wonders if he’ll ever see another little blue eyed curly headed gal
So a fella puckers up
And he kisses a cow

Hey, hey, hey, hey, ho, ho, ho
Hey, hey, hee, hee, ho (repeat)

Oh come on over here you big ‘ol brown eyed darlin’
It’s your misfortune
And none of my own
Get that long pink tongue out of that old snotty nose hole
Come on over here and pucker up!