Country Bumpkin 

by Cal Smith  written by Don Wayne

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He walked up to the bar and parked his 

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Lanky frame upon a tall barstool

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And with a long soft southern drawl said

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I'll just have a glass of anything that's cool

A barroom girl with hard and knowing eyes 

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Slowly looked him up and down

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And she thought I wonder how on earth 

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That country bumpkin found his way to town

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And she said hello country bumpkin  

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How's the frost out on the pumpkin

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I've seen some sights but man you're something

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Where'd you come from country bumpkin

It was just a short year later in a bed

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Of joy-filled tears yet death-like pain

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Into this wondrous world of many wonders

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One more wonder came

That same woman's face was wrapped up

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In a raptured look of love and tenderness

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As she marveled at the soft and warm

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And cuddly boy child feeding at her breast

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And she said hello country bumpkin

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Fresh as frost out on the pumpkin

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I've seen some sights but babe you're something

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Mama loves her country bumpkin

Forty years of hard work later 

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In a simple quiet and peaceful country place

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The heavy hand of time had not erased

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The raptured wonder from the woman's face

She was lying on her death bed 

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Knowing fully well her race was nearly run

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But she softly smiled and looked into

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The sad eyes of her husband and her son

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And she said  so long country bumpkin

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The frost is gone now from the pumpkin

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I've seen some sights and life's been something

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See you later country bumpkin