Down on the farm, half past four
Pulled on my pants, slipped out the door
Down to the barn, run like the dickens
Milk all the cows and feed those chickens

Cleaned up the backyard, ???????? (unintelligible)
Separate the cream, slop all the pigs
In to my breakfast, eat like a Turk
And then I'm ready for a full day's work

Grease up the wagon, throw on the rack
Put a jug of water in the old rain sack
Harness up the mules and slide down the lane
We gotta get the hay and it looks like rain

Look over yonder, sure as you're born
Sheeps in the meadow and the cows in the corn
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From the singing of Ian Hoag of Chautauqua County, NY (USA), 1941, to a strange variation of the tune "Turkey in the Straw"

There's about another verse & a half that I haven't had a chance to transcribe yet, but that's the thrust of it. An internet search turned up a few odd references, each credited to a different "author" (Henry Lorang, FB Kouba, etc), or as "anonymous".

Would love to know more about this little piece of folk verse...






An internet search brought up a few different versions of this merry bit of folk verse, each attributing it either as "anonymous" or to a different "author" This bit of folk verse was sung to an odd, melodically ascending version of "Turkey in the Straw"