[Chorus]
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Don't tell Andy, don't tell Aunt Bee
C# G# F#
They'll come a-lookin' for Opie and me
C# F#
Tell 'em we're dead or tell 'em we're gone
C# G# C#
Me and Opie down by the duck pond
[Verse 1]
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Well Goober brought down some homegrown hay
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It whomped me up the side the head, I never felt that way
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Aunt Bee said we'd be in dutch
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If the sheriff ever caught us smokin' that stuff
[Chorus]
C# F#
Don't tell Andy, don't tell Aunt Bee
C# G# F#
They'll come a-lookin' for Opie and me
C# F#
Tell 'em we're dead or tell 'em we're gone
C# G# C#
Me and Opie down by the duck pond
[Verse 2]
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I heard a little holler down in the woods
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Sounded like someone saying, 'Mm mm good!"
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I moved a little closer, sneaking like a squirrel
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Otis was slurpin' up his favorite girrrrrl
[Verse 3]
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Otis said, "Boys, come sit by the still
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I'll pour you up a jar of that famous swill
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If you can't walk, don't worry no way
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Now LIGHT THAT PIPE and pass it my way"
[Chorus]
C# F#
Don't tell Andy, don't tell Aunt Bee
C# G# F#
They'll come a-lookin' for Opie and me
C# F#
Tell 'em we're dead or tell 'em we're gone
C# G# C#
Me and Opie down by the duck pond
[Verse 4]
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I had to dodge a rock that was hittin' the tree
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Out of the swamp came Ernest T.
C# F#
Gold tooth a-flashing as he hit that pipe
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Out of the blue came Barney Fife
[Verse 5]
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Well Barney come down to nip that still
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Waving an axe, a lawman's thrill
C# F#
"Opie, don't smoke, you'll turn yourself green
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Get me up a puff and I'll show you what I mean"
[Chorus]
C# F#
Don't tell Andy, don't tell Aunt Bee
C# G# F#
They'll come a-lookin' for Opie and me
C# F#
Tell 'em we're dead or tell 'em we're gone
C# G# C#
Me and Opie down by the duck pond
[Verse 6]
C# F#
We all sat there for most of the night
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Trying to figure out our left from our right
C# F#
Here comes Andy and ol' Aunt Bee
C# G# C#
Scoldin' the hell out of Opie and Me
[Chorus]
C# F#
Don't tell Andy, don't tell Aunt Bee
C# G# F#
They'll come a-lookin' for Opie and me
C# F#
Tell 'em we're dead or tell 'em we're gone
C# G# C#
Me and Opie down by the duck pond