I had posted this in a thread titled What Is the Title of This Song? but then I figured it might get lost there - so I moved my message here. For the record, here are the lyrics from A Prairie Home Companion Folk Song Book:

I Saw Esau

I saw Esau sitting on a see-saw
I saw Esau with my girl
I saw Esau sitting on a see-saw
Giving her a merry whirl
When I saw Esau, he saw me
And I saw red and got so sore
So I took a saw and I sawed Esau
Off that old see-saw, hey!
So I took a saw and I sawed Esau
Off that old see-saw.


Haven't found a source for the tune yet.
-Joe-

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Apparently, "Esau" is an old song, mentioned in the works of Laura Ingalls Wilder:

"Three Blind Mice" first appears in the "Little House" books as sung by the Ingalls and Boast families during winter evenings in By the Shores of Silver Lake. In the manuscript for By the Shores of Silver Lake, Wilder wrote that in addition to "Three Blind Mice," the Ingallses and Boasts sang: "I saw Esau kissing Kate, / And in fact we all three saw. / I saw Esau, he saw me, / And she saw, I saw Esau.... Pa said that was an awful lot of sawing. They always sang a round until someone laughed. Then they stopped." Wilder's "I Saw Esau" was called "The Country Cousin;" it was published by E. Mack in 1870.

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The American Memory Collection has piano sheet music for E. Mack's Country Cousin (I Saw Esau Kissing Kate). Is it the same song? I dunno. I think I remember it as part of a polka, and from the Ames Brothers recording.