Someone else sings it on YouTube and it sounds like Walk, Tom Wilson, walk out the room which rhymes- but have a look at this: Uncle Dave Macon A Study in Repertoire The song appears about half way down: ....And this was not the only time that Uncle Dave would mix up all sorts of verses together. Take the song Walk, Tom Wilson, Walk: Bring up my marbles get back to talk, But don't knock that meddler, I'm going to tell you so. Chorus: Walk Tom Wilson walk out the door, Police start picking with a brand new dog. Well I just got back from old New York, Where I never had been before, Ain't got as much money as I had when I left, But I know a whole lot more. I thought when I left home I'se a man of some renown, But in old New York I was on the board, Just a rube from a one horse town. And Gee Whiz what they done for me, Lingered in my memory from the early morn till the sun goes down, Got bunkoed all around. I couldn'twalk ever till the third confound, Just a darned old rube from a one horse town. I'd writ some letters on the train, That I wanted to mail back home, Tell the folks just what I'd see'd, And just how fur I'd come. I saw a box all painted red, And I dropped my letters in, Fire engines come from all around, And the bells begin to ring. And Gee Whiz what they done for me, Squirted water all over me, Grabbed a feller and I said to him, " Pull me out for I can't swim." The crowd all shouted "Let him drown," "It's a darned old goose from a one horse town. "Walk, Tome Wilson, Walk has been re-issued on JSP7729.32 The song kicks off with a verse about Rolley Hole, a form of marbles that is still played today in parts of Tennessee and Kentucky. This is followed by the chorus, which gives the song its title, comprising a couple of lines from a Minstrel song, which also entered the Negro song tradition. (Or was it, perhaps, a Negro sing that was taken up by the Minstrel shows?)... and more about the original(?) minstrel song. At least it explains the marbles! :@)
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