You can always tell when a coon's in love,
He's dreaming the whole day long.
"Her eyes are just like the stars above",
When he sings a sweet love song.
When I courted Mandy Lou,
Though I knew she was true,
I found, like most lovers do,
That all love schemes go wrong.

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I used to sigh.......for the silvery moon.
I used to sigh.......for my coal black coon.
I used to spoon......in the btight moonlight,
And when the moon....was out of sight,
I used to sing.......to my Mandy Lou,
"Ma heart is sad.....but my love is true."
I've changed that tune,
We were wed in June,
We've a new moon now,....it's a honeymoon.

They say two fond hearts beat as one,
If both little hearts are true,
And when to the parson we had gone,
Our hearts grew fonder grew.
Sweetheart days are left behind,
Oft the days are brought to mind,
When I woo'd Mandy Lou.

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