Perrow printed a folk fragment of "Old Thompson's Mule," from Negroes in Mississippi, MS of T. H. Holliman; 1909.

8. THAT MULE

That mule he had a hollow tooth,
He could eat ten bushels of corn;
Every time he blinked his eye,
Two bushels and a half was gone.
Oh! how that mule did holler-r
"Whoa! he-" whoa-a!*
When they curried him off with a rake!

That mule could pull ten thousand pounds,
"That wasn't half a load;**
Just clear the track, both white and black,
And give that mule the road.

* Imitation of the bray. **Cf. Jour. American Folk-Lore, vol. xxiv, p. 371.

Unrelated to other 'Mule' songs in Perrow, e. g., "I Had a Little Mule," "Whoa, Mule!", "Sweet to the Donkey."

"Songs and Rhymes from the South," E. C. Perrow, II. Songs in Which Animals Figure. Jour. American Folk-Lore, 1911, vol. 25, pp. 137-155 (continued in 1913, 1915).