There's an entirely different set of lyrics to the song that I've only found on one recording. From The New Ballards Branch Bog Trotters' CD The Galax Way (1995) are the following lyrics. Unfortunately, the CD's liner notes don't indicate a source for the lyrics, but the impression is that most of the music's source material is the original Ballards Branch Bogtrotters, led by Crockett Ward. Other members of the original group included well-known old time musicians such as Crockett's sons, Fields and Wade Ward, Alex "Eck" Dunford, and Doctor W. P. Davis, as well as Sampson Ward and Walter Alderman on an itinerant basis.

Now, I don't care how I feel
I'm gonna make that chicken reel

Grasshopper settin' on the sweet potato vine
Along come a chicken, and say, she's mine

Cornbread, 'taters, pumpkin pie
Love it all to the day I die