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Thread #52464   Message #804184
Posted By: Joe Offer
16-Oct-02 - 02:59 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Jim Along Josey / Jim Along Josie
Subject: ADD Version: GIT ALONG, JOSIE (from Warner coll.)
Here's one more version, from Traditional American Folk Songs from the Anne and Frank Warner Collection.
-Joe Offer-


GIT ALONG, JOSIE

Oh, a jaybird a settin' on a lonesome limb,
He winks at me and I winks at him.
I ups with a rock and I hits him on the shin,
Says he, "Young man, don't you do that agin."

[CHORUS]
Hey, get along, Can't you git along, Josie?
Hey, get along, Can't you git along, Joe?
Hey, get along, Can't you git along, Josie?
Hey, get along, Can't you git along, Joe?

Oh, de woodchucker laughed at de banjo song,
And he axed me to play old Hey Git Along.
And to please dese varmits style up a gum [in high style]
I plays up Jinny, git yo' hoe-cake done!
[CHORUS]

singer: Tom P. Smith, 1949