Don't eat green meat it ain't good for you 
you know it killed your brother, killed your sister too 
even fresh fried chicken on new-mown sand 
can't beat red beans eaten outa your hand 

Oh Mabel, Mabel! You know I love you gal but I'm not able 
Mabel, oh Mabel, please get off the kitchen table

Don't slice no onions, don't peel no grape 
dream about banana slice nor sniff around short cake 
and if on a winter's day you find your sundial's wrong 
you'll know the weather is what's brought it on 

Oh Mabel, Mabel! You know I love you gal but I'm not able 
Mabel, oh Mabel, please get off the kitchen table

Put the peas in the pot, put the pot on the hot 
In the cellar lies my wife, in my wife there's a knife 
so tote that hammer, lift that pick 
and banish inhibition with a pogo stick   

Oh Mabel, Mabel! You know I love you gal but I'm not able 
Mabel, oh Mabel, please get off the kitchen table