The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #114362   Message #2444569
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
18-Sep-08 - 08:35 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Work Gang Songs
Subject: Lyr Add: ME AND MY PARDNER
ME AND MY PARDNER

Oh, baby. Ugh!
What you gwine to do? Ugh!
Three C Railroad. Ugh!
Done run through. Ugh!

Chorus:
Me and my pardner. Ugh!
Him and me! Ugh!
Him and me-e. Ugh!
Him and me! Ugh!

Oh, baby. Ugh!
What you gwine to do? Ugh!
Seaboard Air-line. Ugh!
Done run through. Ugh!

Chorus:

Oh, baby. Ugh!
What you gwine to do? Ugh!
B and O Railroad. Ugh!
Done run through. Ugh!

Chorus:

The song may continue, naming other railroads. With music. No data, heard from 'roving' construction workers.

Dorothy Scarborough, 1925, "On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs," Work Songs, pp. 216-217, Harvard Univ. Press; reprint 1963, Folklore Associates.