Track listing

1. "Soap" (0:30) - A song about "eight bars"...
2. "Black Is The Colour (Of My True Love’s Hair)" (3:04) - Turned into "Black Is the Colour of My Love's True Hair" [But only her Hairdresser knows--/("Does she or Doesn't she?")--/Only her Hairdresser knows!] {a play on the advertising 'tag line' at that time for Clairol
   Clairol
   Clairol is a personal care products division of Procter & Gamble. The Clairol company was started in 1931 by Lawrence M. Gelb and wife, Joan, who named their enterprise after a hair-coloring preparation they found while traveling in France....
   
    hair-coloring products).
3. "The Fox" (6:17) - Tom decides that this song about a fox throwing a duck across his back would be enhanced by quacking, but Dick disagrees.
4. "I Never Will Marry" (3:05)
5. "Venezuelan Rain Dance" (6:50) - In which the Venezuelans pray to the rain god, Shane to "come back." (actually Hava Nagila)
6. "Daniel Boone" (1:16) - Who was "a trailer and a tractor" according to Tom; naturally, Dick had just stated that Boone was "a trader and a trapper."
7. "My Old Man" (3:17) - In which Tom warns Dick not to make a mistake about his old man who is a "cotton-pickin' finger-lickin' chicken plucker", after he had (purposely) stumbled through lines about his old man being a refrigerator repairman ("refriraterpairman").
8. "The Wreck Of The Old 49" (2:14) - Not a A folk song, but a song written by Shel Silverstein
   Shel Silverstein
   Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein , was an American poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter and author of children's books. He styled himself as Uncle Shelby in his children's books...
   
   .
9. "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" (0:25) - Actually, according to Tom he is not.
10. "The Saga Of John Henry" (8:50) - There are two false starts before Tom is actually able to get the song going properly; both relate to Tom's questions about what John Henry actually could have done when he was "just a little baby." From Tom's dramatic narration between verses, we learn that John Henry apparently did a lot of spitting.
11. "Mary Was Pretty" (2:07) - Dedicated to Dick's then wife (named Linda).

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External links

• Complete Smothers Brothers discography