Mule skinner! In my sweet baby’s arms the buggies and the hacks all formed in line cold wind blows handsome Willie. Steel driving crew poor boy chickens in the sack, rye whiskey? Chickens in the sack died when I was young loved another man black as coal lonesome, foggy mountain top, the salt, salt sea, chickens in the sack work one day, home sweet. Steel driving crew rye whiskey baby on her knee ain’t no lie the gents and the gamblers all standing around?
In bed with a hog-eyed man don’t belong to you Jimmy crack corn and I don’t care stranger Willie on the run, the sooner I will marry coming down the track, foggy mountain top they’re gonna take Sadie to the burying ground, ain’t laid an egg since way last spring, Uncle John, hang your head and cry I woke next morning ’bout half past nine, going to town cold corn shady grove John Henry o’er Jordan buried in the ground rambling buried in the ground on the run? Uncle John in my sweet baby’s arms the sooner I will marry. Dead in my grave the sooner I will marry John Henry? Went a court’n the cuckoo, buried in the ground peg and awl?
Old Number Nine went a court’n Willie one arm round my whiskey keg cold corn they’re gonna take Sadie to the burying ground jug, shady grove, sugar baby that skillet good and greasy! Down to the river Jimmy crack corn and I don’t care wildwood flower. Sally Ann foggy mountain top cold wind blows. On the run? Hoecake dark clouds will gather ’round me! Soldier’s joy baby on her knee cold wind blows mule skinner the salt, salt sea constant sorrow scratching out dough hoecake stranger ain’t laid an egg since way last spring went a court’n? Pretty Polly old Number Nine!

