NOTHIN' BUT A HUMBUG

(trad., collected by James Madison Carpenter
from Rees Baldwin in Wales)

	You're nothin' but a humbug.
	So they say, so they say.
	You're nothin' but a humbug.
	That's all I know!
    
Catfish grow on a huckleberry vine.
    So they say, so they say.
Catfish grow on a huckleberry vine.
    That's all I know!

	You're nothin' but ...

Dandy Jim from South Carolina,
    So they say, so they say.
He's come home to marry Dinah.
    That's all I know!

	You're nothin' but ...

Never seen the like since I been born,
    So they say, so they say.
Sailor on the fife rail crackin' out corn.
    That's all I know!

	You're nothin' but ...

One day the blackbird said to the crow
    So they say, so they say.
Why do you love your farmer so?
    That's all I know!

	You're nothin' but ...

That's my trade since Adam was born
    So they say, so they say.
Scratchin' and a diggin' up the farmers corn.
    That's all I know!

	You're nothin' but ...

Said the blackbird to the crow
    So they say, so they say.
Don't tell those pretty girls all I know.
    That's all I know!

	You're nothin' but ...

High and dry we'll hoist her high
    So they say, so they say.
Hoist her high for a bulgine pie.
    That's all I know!

	You're nothin' but ...

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