Lyrics Ray Stevens

Ray Stevens

Along Came Jones

I plopped down in my easy chair and I turned on a

Channel 2

A bad gunslinger named a Salty Sam was a chasin' poor

Sweet Sue

He trapped her in the old sawmill and said with an evil

laugh,

If you don't give me the deed to your ranch

I'll saw you all in half!

And then he grabbed her (Help, he grabbed me)

He tied her up (help he's tying me up oh)

He turned on the buzzsaw (he's turnin on the buzz saw

help)

(chorus):

And then along came Jones

Tall thin Jones

Slow-walkin' Jones

Slow-talkin' Jones

Along came long, lean, lanky Jones

Commercial came on, so I got up to fix myself a snack

You should've seen what was goin' on by the time that I

got back

Down in the old abandoned mine, Sweet Sue was havin'

fits

That villain said Give me the deed to your ranch

Or I'll blow you all to bits!

And then he grabbed her (help, he grabbed me help)

He tied her up (he's tying me up again help)

He lit the fuse to the dynamite (he lit the fuse to the

dynamite, Help help)

(chorus)

And then along came Jones

Tall thin Jones

Slow-walkin' Jones

Slow-talkin' Jones

Along came long, lean, lanky Jones

I got so bugged I turned it off and turned on another

show

But there was the same old shoot-'em-up and the same

old rodeo

Salty Sam was a tryin' to stuff Sweet Sue in a burlap

sack

He said If you don't give me the deed to your ranch

I'll throw you on the railroad track!

And then he grabbed her (help he's grabbing me again

He tied her up (here we go again, tying me up)

He threw her on the railroad tracks

A train started comin' (Oh, here come the train! here

come the train. Oh help, help help)

(chorus)

And then along came Jones

Tall thin Jones

Slow-walkin' Jones

Slow-talkin' Jones

Along came long, lean, lanky Jones

Along came long, lean, lanky Jones

Along came long, lean, lanky Jones