St. Louis Post-Dispatch (March 24, 1912):

"It was out in New Mexico [said John H. Curran, former immigration commissioner] some 20 years ago. I was with some fellows on a ranch, and one of them, who was from Missouri, was the life of the party. He played the banjo and sang ‘Dinah Had a Wooden Leg,’ and as sure as you live, the tune he sang it to was the was the very tune of the dog song. And sometimes at the end of the ‘Dinah’ verse, he would sing this line, repeated two or three times:

                  Boys all kick my dog aroun’.

“And then, with the final twang of his banjo strings, he would end with:

                 Better quit kickin’ my dog around’.

...[The dog song] goes with ‘Sally Gooden,’ ‘Sugar in de Gourd,’ ‘Old Tom Wilson,’ and ‘Turkey and [sic] de Straw.’”


"Dinah Had a Wooden Leg" (like "Sal's Got a Meat Skin") is one more name for the tune "Sally Ann."