I DON'T WANT NO TROUBLE WITH DE WALKER

I don't want no,
Want no trouble with de walker.
I don't want no,
Want no trouble with de walker.
I wanta go home,
Lawd, Lawd, I wanta go home.

Oh, me and my buddy
Jes' came here this mornin'.
Wanta go home,
Lawd, Lawd, wanta go home.

I can drive it,
Drive it as long as anybody.
Wanta go home,
Lawd, Lawd, wanta go home.

Cap'n, did you hear about,
Hear about two your womens gonna leave you?
Wanta go home,
Lawd, Lawd, wanta go home.

I'm gonna roll here,
Roll here a few days longer.
I'm goin' home,
Lawd, Lawd, I'm goin' home.

Cap'n an' walker,
Walker been raisin' san'.
Cap'n told walker
He could git 'im another man.

Lawd, dey got my buddy,
Buddy an' his forty-fo!
Next 'lect'ocution
Dey'll git him sho'.

Pick song "commonly heard around Chapel Hill, NC." Music provided, p. 240.
The walker is the walking boss or overseer. The workers often teased the walker or captain in their songs.

Odum and Johnson, 1926, Negro Workaday Songs, Ch. 6, Construction Camps and Gangs, p. 113.