Lyr. Add: ROOT HOG OR DIE (Bill Jackson)
Arvin, CA, 1941 (Voices from the Dust Bowl)

Landed in Californy
In the year of Thirty-six
Didn't have no money
And in an awful fix
Didn't have no money
My victuals for to buy
Wasn't no use in runnin', boy,
It's root hog or die.

It seems to me that there should be other songs based on Root Hog or Die from the Dust Bowl years.

American Memory.