Macon [Ga.] Telegraph (Jan. 16, 1889): "Then he stepped back and, to the tune of 'Dixie,' warbled thus: I poked my head in the peckerwood's hole, The peckerwood says 'Take it out, blame your soul, take it out [sic]. Take it out, take it out, take it out.' "He got no further. The audience went wild." Meeker [Okla.] Herald (Feb. 22, 1906): "The jaybird pecked at the peckerwood's hole, And the peckerwood said, 'Confound your soul.'"
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