When I was a kid, Lord how I hated that song!!! When we had to sing it in class some of the other kids would leer at me as they mouthed the words "OLD BLACK JOE". By the way, none of us in the class was Black. And only one of us was named Joe!

Now, I'm over it. The words do nothing for me, but the tune sounds good on a fretless gut stringed banjo.

Joe