Lyr. Add: LAST YEAR WAS A FINE CRAP YEAR

1
Last year was a fine crap year
On corn and peas and 'taters;
My pa didn't raise no cotton and corn,
But, oh, good Lord, the 'taters!

Chorus:
Haw, Buck, haw, Buck, haw!
Who made de back band? Say you don't know?
Soon as I git my crap laid by
I'se gwine home to Julie.
2
Last year I ploughed de horny ox,
Dis year I ploughs de mulie.*
Soon as I git my crap laid by
I'se gwine home to Julie.

*'mulie' is an ox without horns. Song from Mississippi, in Dorothy Scarborough, 1925, Negro Folk-Songs, p. 187, "On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs," facsimile reprint by Folklore Associates, 1963.

A fragment also found in Randolph, "Couldn't Raise No Sugar Corn," coll. 1916, no. 281, vol. 2, Ozark Folksongs.

First recordings 1931 (See Traditional Ballad Index).