Excerpt from I WENT TO MY SWEETHEART'S HOUSE

I went to my sweetheart's house.
I never was thar befor'
They sot me in the corner as still as a mouse,
An' I ain't gwine thar no mo' mo', mo'
An' I ain't gwine thar no mo', my love,
An' I ain't gwine thar no mo'.

I had a little rooster,
He crowed 'bout break o' day
An' the weasel come to my house
An' stole my rooster 'way
An' stole my rooster 'way, my love,
An' he stole my rooster 'way.

Jackers came to my house,
I thought he came to see me.
But when I come to find out,
He 'swade my wife to leave me.
He 'swade my wife to leave, my love,
He 'swade my wife to leave me...

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Source: Dorothy Scarborough "On The Trail of Negro-Folk-Songs" {Foklore Associates, Inc. edition, 1963, p. 166; originally published in 1925}

Scarborough wrote that this was a banjo tune from Virginia that was "very old and from before the {Civil} War"