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Thread #161724 Message #3845600
Posted By: Joe Offer
19-Mar-17 - 12:00 AM
Thread Name: DTStudy: My Sweetheart's the Mule in the Mines
Subject: ADD Version: My Sweetheart's the Mule in the Mines
Silber (Folksinger's Wordbook page 27) isn't much different:
MY SWEETHEART'S THE MULE IN THE MINES
My sweetheart's the mule in the mines.
I drive her without any lines.
On the bumper I sit
And I chew and I spit
All over my sweetheart's behind.
Well, that covers all the versions cited by the Traditional Ballad Index except for I Hear America Singing! Great Folk Songs from the Revolution to Rock (Hazel Arnett, 1975), which I don't have or don't find.
A couple of YouTube videos wouldn't hurt, would they
Here's Joe Glazer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyNbVjMJink
And Pete Seeger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2glwmGpbFc
Malvina Reynolds started her "You Can't Make a Turtle Come Out" with the same melody, expanded.