HOOK AND LINE

Hook and line to catch a shad,
First think I caught was my old dad.

Pole broke and I got mad,
Right to the bottom went my old dad!

Shout a nickel, shout a dime,
Shout little Lulu any old time.

Shout little Lulu, shout your best,
Your old grandmother's in a hornet's nest!
(Spoken:) Yes sir!

Shout, shout, shout, shout!
What in hell are you shoutin' about?


Source: Old-Time Mountain Banjo (p. 11), by Art Rosenbaum

It's the first tune in Rosenbaum's tutor, though in short order he progresses it from brush-thumb to a more typical basic frail, including hammering on and pulling off. He uses a double C tuning (gCGCD, aka. C modal). Of course, you could capo/tune to double D (aDADE).