Lonesome Man

	While Hubert Canfield retitled this "Nigger Blues I" in his 1926 collection, his unidentified contributor subtitled this a "southern mountain song."   Black it may be in origin, but it is the white tradition that is sampled here.

Apples in the cupboard,
Peaches on the shelf,
I'm damned tired
Of sleeping by myself.

Birds on the mountain
Fishes in the sea,
Takes a big-legged woman
To make a fool of me.

Possums in the high wood,
Rabbits in the flat.
My cock's a-stickin' out
For a place to hang my hat.

In hell is the Devil
And in Heaven, God.
Jesus Christ knows I need
Some tallow on my rod.

Coons in the cornfield,
On the ridge is deer
Old woman came by,
Hadn't fucked in forty year.

Yaller birds is yaller,
Black birds is black,
Little girl came by,
Warn't old enough to crack.

Laurel on the mountain,
On the bottom is grass.
I'll catch me a tom cat,
Run a pecker up his ass.


Wanderin' in Sandburg?