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Thread #19663 Message #3226450
Posted By: Joe Offer
21-Sep-11 - 02:36 AM
Thread Name: Origins: I'm a Rowdy Soul.
Subject: ADD: I'm a Rowdy Old Soul.
One more, from the Journal of American Folklore, Volume 26 (1913) p.126. The article is titled Songs and Rhymes from the South, by E.C. Perrow.
11. I'M A ROWDY OLD SOUL
(From Mississippi; negroes: MS.?; 1909)
I uster drive a long-horn steer;
Now I drive a muley:
Hand me down my frock and coat;
I'm goin' back to Juley. I'm a rowdy old soul, I'm a rowdy old soul!
There ain't gwine to be a nigger in a mile or more.
I'm gwine to get some brick and sand
To build my chimney higher,
To keep that damned old tomcat
From putting out my fire.