Now to get back to music.

You can hear the Delmore brothers singing 'Coon in the hickory tree'
here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRItf2mrkzA

Siblings often sing well together, because their voices are similar, and they blend. You can hear that in this song. Reminds me of the Everly Brothers later on.

This is clearly a square dance tune that somebody put words to. The words were not important, really, they merely helped the fiddler remember the tune. Later, people kept adding verses, all of them silly. Spountik, if you are still with us, and you thought you had tapped a deep well of meaning in American folk culture - sorry!

The video is worth listening to. There are interesting variations to be heard. It seems to be from 1933.