My name is Ginger Blue, and what I'll tell you is mighty true
I'm fresh from the old Virginia mountains
Free as a bird what sails in the air
I'm as pure as the water from the fountain

Spoken:
"Well, sir, I was born when I was just a little bitty baby, way down in them old Virginia mountains. So I went all the way through school when I was very young. Yes, sir, I went in the back door and come out a the front door and then I turned around and went back through, and that made me go through twice. So when I gets up about 14 years old, a big strip of a boy, my pap said to me one morning, he said, 'Ginger Blue, don't you know it's about time you was making up your mind to be something?'" I said, "Pap, what do you want me to be?" Said, "Well, now, that's for you to decide, what you want to be." Said, "You get out here and get you a job of some kind." I said, "O.K., Pap."

So I always did want to be a cowboy. So I just goes down and I gets me one of these 10-gallon hats and I sticks it on my head, and gets me a big .45 and I straps it on my hip. I starts right on out to being a cowboy. But you know, someway them cows didn’t seem like
they liked me much; never did know why hardly unless, maybe, I
shot a little too much bull. So I decided I’d better do something else.

Then the idea hit me — I’d be a lover, ‘cause, boy, I sure do like the gals. But someway them gals they didn't like me too much either. So after I get a few scratches, bumps, black-eyes and hair-pullings, I said, 'Uh-uh, this ain't no life for me. I'm going to have to do something else. So I takes off my hat, and I scratched my head and I studied. So I
just started right on out, down the line, and seein’ what I was going to do.

Chorus:
Walking, talking Ginger Blue,
You cause me double trouble.
Oh, Ginger, every time.
Walking, talking Ginger Blue
You cause me double trouble,
Now you've got old Ginger on the line.

Spoken:
Well, sir, I thought, "Now what am I gonna do?" and so the idea hit me all at once. I'm just gonna be a doctor. So I goes down to Tazewell, Tennessee, and I puts me up a doctor's shop. So one day a lady come into my doctor shop and says, "Are you Dr. Ginger Blue?" I says, "Yes, ma'am, I sure is. What can I do for you, lady?" Says, "Oh, Doctor, I got the miseries just something terrible, and I just want to see what
you can do for me." I says, "Lady, you sure have come to the right place." I jumped up, and I grabbed a handful of pills, and a bunch of herbs, mixed 'em all up in castor oil, and now says, "Now, lady, you take these right straight home with you, and when you get there, you take a teacup full of them at bedtime, and I think by morning you'll be....

Chorus:
Walking, talking Ginger Blue
You cause me double trouble,
Oh, Ginger, every time.
Walking, talking Ginger Blue
You cause me double trouble,
Think it'll put you on the line.

Spoken:
So, early the next morning, a little boy come into my doctor’s shop,
and he says, "Are you Doctor Ginger Blue?" I says, "I sure [am]. Didn't you see my name out there on that door?" He says, "Yes. I just want to know what you give my Mammy, for the miseries, last night.” I says, “Well, boy, I give her something for the miseries, what you think I was gonna give her? Why?” He said, “I don’t know. My mammy sure did act funny this morning." I said, "Well, how did she act?" “Well, she jumped right up out of that bed, right out in the middle of the floor, and turned around and around and around, and she grabbed up that Sears Roebuck catalog. She tore outa that back door sideways. She went all the way down behind the barn, just as hard as she could go. And you know, Doctor, she was just....

Chorus:
Walking, talking Ginger Blue
You cause me double trouble,
Oh, Ginger, every time.
Walking, talking Ginger Blue
You cause me double trouble,
You sure have put me on the line.