My Sweetheart's the Mule in the Mine
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
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Lyrics:
My sweetheart's the mule in the mines
I drive her without any lines;
On the bumper I sit
And I chaw and I spit*
All over my sweetheart's behind.
*or: And tobaccy I spit
An example or "horizontal distribution" in oral tradition,<br> this short ditty is widely known but the source is untraceable.<br> It's good for a laugh at a jam.<br> It has been printed in Pete Seeger's The Bells of Rhymney and<br> Alan Lomax's The Folk Songs of North America. Lomax credits<br> G. G. Korson's Minstrels of the Mine Patch (1927) as his source.<br> This version is a combination of Seeger's and Lomax's versions.<br>
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