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I give up. What's a HOGEYE? DigiTrad: HOG-EYE MAN THE LIFEBOAT MAN Related threads: Lyr Add: Hogseye Man (39) Lyr Req: Peggy in the garden? / Hog-Eye Man (2) Lyr Add: Predecessor song to 'Hogeye Man' (29) Lyr Req: Dirty Hog eye man? (57) Hogeyed man (16)
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Subject: RE: I give up. What's a HOGEYE? From: Gibb Sahib Date: 03 Jan 24 - 11:21 AM "Hog Eye" in a shipboard setting, in fiction. Note the early date. “Tricks That Are in Vain.” The Portland Daily Press [Portland ME], 5 September 1874: 4. // The good captain was in high glee over the result of his morning’s work, and as a relief to his feelings invited Jake [Pendergrast, the mate] down to another interview with the case bottle in the cabin, after which he broke forth into song in these words, (and no tune in particular): “Oh, a hog-eye ship and a hog-eye crew, And a hog-eye mate and a captain too, Oh, a railroad nigger and a hog-eye ma-a-a-n, All you want is a hog eye man.” This sentimental ballad he accompanied by a wild and uncouth dance of his own invention, and Mr. Pendergrast, catching the enthusiasm of the hour, joined in the chorus and patted his leg and stamped his foot to assist his superior officer in marking the time. // |
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Subject: RE: I give up. What's a HOGEYE? From: Gibb Sahib Date: 03 Jan 24 - 11:43 AM More detail on singing "Hog Eye" at the end of the North Carolina Convention of 1868. Wyoming Democrat, 6 May 1868: 1. // Just prior to adjournment a “delegate” struck up “John Brown’s Body,” with great unction, lining out the song from a Freedman’s Bureau missionary hymn book. In joined the saints and up rose the chorus. At first the negroes in the gallery looked on in amaze, but pretty soon they too began to sing and the uproar grew tremendous. “Old John Brown” gave way to “Hail Columbia,” and that in turn to “O! say yeller gal can’t yer come out to-night,” and then all were swamped in the roaring air of “Hog Eye,” a favorite negro corn-shocking melody which begins “Sal’s in the garden siftin sand” and has for its second line a rhyme too indecent to repeat. Fired by this, the saints joined all hand round and executed a war dance to the chorus, “And a roly, sholy, bool, An a hog-eye, And a roly, sholy, bool, An a hog-eye. For Sal’s in de garden sifting sand,” &c. And thus did the North Carolina congressional redestruction “convention” disport itself in its closing hours. // |
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