Hello Q,

Yes, I scoured through Talley, Newman I. White, Dorothy Scarborough and both books by Odum and Johnson, but the elusive Deacon doesn't seem to appear in any of them. I have the feeling that this song was never cleaned up for polite company as "Uncle Bud" sometimes was.

"Deacon Jones" seems to be on the same pattern as "Uncle Bud," though I can't put together any very helpful lines. On the sound sample referenced above, the best I can do sounds like:

DEACON JONES

[ My honey when he get the wall, ?? ]
Bet a hundred dollar he could fuck 'em all,

Cho:   Deacon Jones, Deacon Jones, Deacon Jones, Deacon Jones.

...
Jack off the one and put the turn [?] to two, Cho

Got anywhere ... [ ? ] to him,
Fuck the devil any ... [ ? ] slim. Cho

That at least gives you a notion what the general shape of it is. Bob