"If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree is an old saying in the South," and appears in several songs. See "Screening the Blues," by Paul Oliver, p. 217.
Perhaps the best known is the old blues by Bo Carter. The "Bo" Chatmon recording I believe has been re-issued in a set by Yazoo.


DON'T MASH MY DIGGER SO DEEP
As recorded by Bo Carter, 1936.

Baby, an' if you don't like my peaches, baby, please don't you touch my tree.
Baby, an' if you don't love my peaches, baby, please don't touch my tree.
And if you don't want me to have your potatoes, don't mash my digger down so deep.

Says when I get to use my digger, I use it in diff'rent ways.
I dig potatoes for these women both night and day.
And if you don't love my peaches, baby, please don't touch my tree.
And if you don't want me to have your potatoes, don't mash my digger down so deep.

Says, when I get to use my digger, I use it just like I should.
The women all cryin': "Your digger, you know, it diggin' feel so good."
If you don't love my peaches, baby, don't you touch my tree.
And if you don't want me to have your potatoes, don't mash my digger down so deep.

Oh, baby, don't mash it so deep!

Says, when I get to use my digger, I use the side an' up an' down.
I can dig your potatoes better'n any man in this town.
And if you don't love my peaches, baby, please don't touch my tree.
And if you don't want me to have your potatoes, don't mash my digger down so deep.

Sometime it takes three inches to dig potatoes; sometime it takes fo'.
When I find 'em deep, you know I mash it down some mo'.
And if you don't love my peaches, baby, don't you touch my tree.
And if you don't want me to have your potatoes, don't mash my digger so deep.


Lyrics might not be completely accurate. Sung by Armenter "Bo" Chatmon, 1936, on "Banana in Your Fruit Basket," Yazoo 1064.
Don't Mash My Digger So Deep