Someone was seeking 'Country Ham and Red Gravy' in another thread. I posted an attempted transcription before this Uncle Dave thread was started. There is a link to it above in message 26 Feb 01 - 9.08. There are several inaccuracies in that transcription. Below is a transcription that I am pretty happy with now - corrections and disagreements are still welcomed though. Uncle Dave seems unphased by mixed tenses in the refrain - 'yell', 'heard', 'smell'.

COUNTRY HAM AND RED GRAVY

Talk about your old cow meat
Your mutton and your lamb
Come for to see them people's eyes shine
Show 'em that good sweet ham

Oh how them darkies yell
When they heard that dinner bell
Oh how that ham meat smell
Three miles away

Rich folk gone to market house
Buy'd that mutton and lamb
I'm goin' back to (the) butcher's shop
To get that good sweet ham

Oh how them people yell
When they heard that dinner bell
Oh how them onions smell
Three miles away

Talk about your fried chicken
It's nothing but a sham
If you want a real meal
Call for country ham

Oh how them boarders yell
When they heard that dinner bell
Oh how them onions smell
Three miles away

Talk about your red snapper fish
Hotcakes from the pan
I'm going back to farm smoke house
To get that good sweet ham

Oh how them poor did yell
When they heard that dinner bell
Oh how that ham meat smell
Three miles away

Talk about your fried chicken
You think you're livin' easy
That ain't nothin' to compare
With the country ham and gravy

Oh how them darkies yell
When they heard that dinner bell
Oh how them onions smell
Three miles away

Of all the meat I ever eat
Ain't gwine to tell you no sham
Bake it high, stew or fry
Still, it's good sweet ham

Oh how them boarders yell
When they heard that dinner bell
Oh how them onions smell
Three miles away

Source: Uncle Dave Macon 'Country Ham and Red Gravy' Recorded 24 January 1938. Reissued on Uncle Dave Macon 'Travelin' Down the Road' County CCS-CD-115.

--Stewie.