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GUEST,Les B Origin: Pro Patria (Cotton Noe) (9) Looking for info on 'found' song 23 May 00


While visiting an elderly aunt I ran across a song my uncle dictated to her before he died some years ago. He indicated it came from a 1933 "Whiz Bang Joke Book" and was sung to the tune of Turkey In The Straw. It's an odd, untitled, little piece and I'm wondering if it's missing a verse. It seems like a cross between Tin Pan Alley and Old Timey. Any info on this ??

Jim (or Tim?)Sams had twins and a razor back sow
Five dogs and a mule and an old roan cow
A bone spavined filly and a one-room house
And a little wrinkled mammy just as meek as a mouse

Old Jim raised tobacco and they trafficked in skins
And he had seven sons in addition to the twins
And every mother's son and the little mammy Jude
Smoked a pipe all day, and the twins both chewed

Old Jim kept a digging and he never lost heart
For the dogs hunted rabbits and caught right smart
The bone spavined filly with the mule pulled the plow
And they lived off the givens of the old road cow

Now here my story closes of this little romance
For the seven sons are sleeping in the poppy fields of France
Their daddy grows tobacco and they traffic still in skins
And the little wrinkled mammy had another set of twins


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