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BUCKEYE JIM

1.
'Way up yonder above the sky,
A bluebird lived in a jay-bird's eye.

(REFRAIN)
Buckeye Jim, you can't go,
Go weave and spin, you can't go, Buckeye Jim.

2.
'Way up yonder above the moon,
A blue-jay nests in a silver spoon.

3.
'Way down yonder in a wooden trough,
And old wo-man died of the whoopin' cough.

4.
'Way down yonder on a hollow log,
A red bird danced with a green bullfrog.

"The folk-stuff of all lands is peopled with charming animals that dance and dine and are otherwise animated with human and superhuman qualities. American animal songs, however, are ordinarily either broadly comic or deeply pathetic. In 'Buckeye Jim' there is a feeling of otherworldliness, the sense of things seen through the mirror of fantasy. Hum 'Buckeye Jim' and then sing 'The Grey Goose,' 'Frog Went a-Courtin',' 'Mister Rabbit,' 'The Boll Weevil,' 'Old Blue,' 'The Ground Hog,' and other American songs about animals. Then it will be clear that 'Buckeye Jim' has a special unearthly quality, a child's imagining wrapped round with the haze of sweet blue hills. Everybody wonders about the birthplace and condition of 'Buckeye Jim,' but not a trace has been found, not even far up the deepest hollow or across the highest hill of the Southern mountain country." (John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax, Best Loved American Folk Songs, Grosset & Dunlop, 1947, p. 4)

~Masato