RABBIT FOOT BLUES
(Blind Lemon Jefferson, 1926)

Blues jumped a rabbit: run him one solid mile (2x)
This rabbit sat down; cried like a natural child

Well it seem like you hungry: honey come and lunch with me (2x)
I want to stop these married-looking women: from worrying me

I have Uneeda biscuits here: and a half a pint of gin (2x)
The gin is mighty fine: them biscuits are a little too thin

Baby tell me something about those meatless and wheatless days (2x)
Since I seen my home, I don’t think I can stay

I cried for flour and meat: I declare it was gone (2x)
Keep a-feeding me cornbread: I just can't stick around long

Got an airplane baby: now I'm going to get a submarine (2x)
Going to get that Kaiser: and we'll be seldom seen

Mnnn hitch me to your buggy mama: drive me like a mule (2x)
Reason I'm going home with you, sugar: I ain't much hard to be fooled.


Source: Michael Taft's Pre-War Blues Lyrics Concordance.

The song is available on the CD, "The Best of Blind Lemon Jefferson," Yazoo label.

The last part of the text is different from the version in "Folk Blues," Jerry Silverman, posted near the top of this thread. The lyrics suggest a WW1 origin.