from a 2006 thread with kytrad ... not her original songwriting but a part of her children's repetoire -

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: SNAKE BAKED A HOECAKE
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 06 Feb 02 - 11:26 PM

This was a little funny rhyme one said to children (trotting them on the knee,or dancing them two-handed about the floor):

Snake baked a hoe-cake
Set a frog to mind it,
Frog got to noddin, and
A lizard come and stold it-
Spoken: BRING BACK MY HOE-CAKE, YOU LONG-TAILED NANNY-O!

Many years ago I did a residency in Fresno State College, and met and made music with the folk group there. Jody was one of them, and I'm pretty sure he must have learned that little poem from me- has he made it into a song?