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Thread #3525 Message #3047676
Posted By: Jim Dixon
06-Dec-10 - 04:21 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Poopampareno (cante fable)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Man treed by bear, calls dogs
This "song"—which I suspect is actually a cante-fable—seems to be found in two books:
Coyote Wisdom by J. Frank Dobie, (Texas Folklore Society, 1938), page 254.
A Treasury of Southern Folklore by B. A. Botkin (Crown Publishers, 1949), page 518.
Neither of those is completely viewable online, but Google shows this much:
Here, Sambo! And Ringo!
Your master's almost gone!
And a poo-pam and a poo,
And a poo-pam and a po-o-o!
This time the dogs barely heard him. They looked at the fence. ...