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Thread #126210   Message #2803983
Posted By: Jim Dixon
05-Jan-10 - 10:43 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: 'As I went down the new-cut road...'
Subject: RE: tinker & a toad connected to Billy Patterson LYR?
From On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs by Dorothy Scarborough (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1925), page 106:

"Here is a variant of the Josey song [see DT & this thread], that combines stanzas from other well-known favorites. This was sent to me by Virginia Fitzgerald, from Virginia."

As I was going up a new-cut road,
I met a terrapin an' a toad.
Every time the toad would jump,
The terrapin dodge behine a stump.
O! rall, rall, Miss Dinah gal,
O! do come along, by darling!
O! rall, rall, Miss Dinah gal,
O! do come along, by darling!

My ole Missis promise me
When she died she'd set me free;
Now ole Missis dead an' gone,
She lef' ole Sambo hillin' up corn.
Hey, Jim along, jam along, a-Josie,
Hey, Jim along, jam along, Joe!
Hey, Jim along, jam along, from Baltimo'!

You go round an' I go through,
. . . . . . . . . . .
You get there befo' I do,
Tell 'em all I'm comin', too.
Hey, Jim along, jam along, a-Josie,
Hey, Jim along, jam along, Joe!
Hey, Jim along, jam along, from Baltimo'!