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186 JOHNSON'S MULE
For a very similar, but longer, text see Pound, No 103. The present version was sung in 1935 by Mr. Otis Evilsizer, Alger; obtained by his daughter, Mrs. Maude Simpson, Detroit.
1 Old Johnson had a big gray mule; He drove him around in a cart.
He loved that mule and the mule loved him
With all his mulish heart.
The rooster crowed and Johnson knowed
That day was going to break;
So he curried that mule with a three-legged stool,
And he smoothed him down with a rake;
And then that mule would say, "Heehaw!"
And he smoothed him down with a rake.
2 He fed that mule on old boot legs And hunks of yellow clay,
Some shavings and some wooden pegs, That was his oats and hay. |
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One day the mule was going across the field,
And he found an old hoop skirt;
He commenced at once to make a meal
On old rusty wire and dirt.
That night he took a fever,
And it settled in his feet;
Before next morn the mule had gone
To walk in the golden street;
And then that mule would say, "Heehaw!"
And he smoothed him down with a hoe. |
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