RE: Guest, meself's posting of the Foggy Dew song:

The stories are identical even though the words here are a lot simpler. It's pretty clearly a ploy to get a guy in the sack. This is how it's spelled on the RCR album/liner notes.

BOOGERBOO
(as performed by the Red Clay Ramblers, 1974. They got most of their earlier material directly from 1920's and 1930's recordings so there is probably a very similar "original" out there somewhere.)

Come all you jolly [boglin'?] boys who want to learn my trade,
The very first wrong I ever done was to court [another?] [a lovin'?] maid.
I courted her the winter's night, the summer season, too,
But when I gained her free good will, I knew not what to do.

My love came to my bedside, so bitterly she did weep,
At last she jumped in the bed with me, she was 'fraid of the boogerboo.

All in the first part of that night me and my love did play,
All in the latter part of that night she rolled in my arms till day.

"Wake up, wake up, my pretty little miss; wake up, for day has come,
Wake up, wake up, my pretty little miss, the boogerboo has gone."

I went to see this little girl and loved her as my life,
I took this girl and I married her and she made me a virt'ous wife.

I never tell her of her faults, and dog me if I do,
But every time the baby cries I think of the boogerboo.