(C)    G                                 C/G            C
  Come, listen all you gals and boys, ise just from Tuckyhoe;
        G       /F#    /E    /D         7         C
  I'm goin, to sing a little song, my name's Jim Crow.
  
   G    (b5)     7             C/G     F         
  Weel about and turn about and do jis so,
   C            F            G7        C
  Eb'ry time I weel about I jump Jim Crow.
  
  I went down to the river, I didn't mean to stay;
  But dere I see so many gals, I couldn't get away.
  
  Gnd arter I been dere awhile, I tought I push my boat;
  But I tumbled in de river, gnd I find myself afloat.
  
  I git upon a flat boat, I cotch de Uncle Sam;
  Den I went to see de place where dey kill'd de Packenham.
  
  Gnd den I go to Orleans, gn, feel so full of flight;
  Dey put me in de Calaboose, gn, keep me dere all night.
  
  When I got out I hit a man, his name I now forgot;
  But dere was noting left of him 'cept a little grease spot.
  
  Gnd oder day I hit a man, de man was mighty fat
  I hit so hard I nockt him in to an old cockt hat.
  
  I whipt my weight in wildcats, I eat an alligator;
  I drunk de Mississippy up! O! I'm de very creature.
  
  I sit upon a hornet's nest, I dance upon my bead;
  I tie a wiper round my neck gn, den I go to bed.
  
  I kneel to de buzzard, gn, I bow to the crow;
  Gn eb'ry time I weel about I jump jis so.
  
  
  ["Jim Crow" (1829) (G Comic Song) Words and Music by Thomas Dartmouth ("Daddy") Rice, 1808-1860. Source: page 209 from "Minstrel Songs, Old and New" (1883)]