Here's my current reading. This is after crackle removal/noise reduction/eq/time stretching. There are still some bits not clear:


POONTANG LITTLE, POONTANG SMALL

1.Poontang little an' poontang small,
Poontang stretches like a rubber ball

Cho:   Oh my babe, OH my salty thing.

2.OH MA, Hung my poontang from the wire,
RUSH come down TO the hottest fire.

3.Gonna hang my poontang UPON the fence,
Oh, the man come an' git it ain't got no sense,

4.Oh, when/WHERE I'M GOIN', I'M GONNA DO MY BEST
I'M Gone tell A LITTLE SOMETHING for the women out west

5.Got a humpback a-little THAT COULDN'T NEAR BEAT
[Oh, the big beater shaggy like a chimpanzee]

6.Oh, I b'lieve to my soul she had a lucky HEN
'Cause the LADY GAVE A THING to the sweet-cock man,

7.Poontang little and a-poontang small,
Poontang twisted like a rubber ball,

       Spoken:   …it's all on fire.

8.O WIRE, BRIER, LIMBER, lark (pron [waio,braio,limo])
HOW MANY GEESE IS IN A/OUR FLOCK

9.Oh, one flew east and a-one flew west,
One flew over the cuckoo's nest,

10.Hung my poontang from the wire,
<?> come down TO the hottest fire,

11.Put my dress above my knees,
I'm gonna give my poontang to who I please,

12.Oh poon I want, tang I crave,
Tang gonna CARRY to my lovin' grave,

13. My man has GO ON TO "tell-me-one,"/ONCE?
I'M Gonna <dup>> my husband till my man come,


Source: Jimmy Strothers


v2 start may be just an interjection. RUSH I'm still not certain about. TO is definite (and in later verse).

v3. UPON is definite

v4 1st half line is still unclear, but the 2nd half is pretty clear. 2nd line tell is unclear; could still be sell

v5. 2nd half of 1st line is fairly clear. 2nd line totally unclear; I'll try and go back to that.

v6. I think last word on 1st line is HEN viz cock in 2nd line. 2nd line is fairly clear as I have it (though I did wonder about peacock man for a time).

v8. Is definitely the wire/brier as discussed above. He pronounces it as [waio, braio, limo..]. 2nd line I'm not sure it it's A flock or OUR flock. (I suspect A).

v10. The inital word of 2nd line is omitted (rush 1st time round).

v12. CARRY rather then CARRY ME I think

v13. Sounds like GO ON rathe than gone, but that might be just the way he sang it. 2nd half of 1st line still unclear, though the last word may be ONCE rather than one. 2nd line starts I'M. What's being done to the husband appears to be just a sound rather than a definite word!.


Hope this is some help. I'll try and come back to the unclear bits when it's quieter around here!.

Mick