Puddin' Head Jones

Puddin' Head Jones - Don Redman

There was a most peculiar kid in our town

Was always late for school

He never learned to tell a verb from a noun

And always broke the rules

Though they looked upon him as a clown

Yet he wasn't such a fool

Oh Puddin' head Jones was fat and funny

Dumber than sticks and stones

That is just why the kids all called him

Woodenhead Puddin' Head Jones

He couldn't spell Constantinople

Didn't know beans from bones

Pencils and books they were never made for

Woodenhead Puddin' Head Jones

Teacher told his mother she would take him right in hand

And teach him a thing or two

Like his older brother he began to understand

He learned everything that she ever knew

All of the kids to the teacher carried

Candy and ice cream cones

But who do you think the teacher married

Woodenhead Puddin' Head Jones