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Thread #41618   Message #843148
Posted By: GUEST,Q
07-Dec-02 - 02:43 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Wake up, sleepy! (Steamboat)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Wake up, sleepy! (Steamboat)
This verse makes more sense than the one transcribed by Dicho.

O-O-O-ah
If yo' shoulder bone gits so' this time,
Git you a little sody an' turpentine.

Henry Truvillion sang this song a little differently each time. Definition of "two blue seams"- sacks of cotton seed had twom blue seams.
These corrections from Botkin, B. A., 1955, Mississippi River Folklore, p. 571-572.