GREEN CORN
(heard at Berkeley Folk Music Festival in about 1959; learned from Sing Out)
Wake, shake, day's a-breakin',
All I need in this creation
All I need to make me happy
(from miriam berg's folksong collection)
Peas in the pot and the hoe-cakes a-bakin'
Early in the morning, almost day
If you don't come soon, gonna throw it away,
Green corn, come along, Cholly,
Green corn, don'cha tell Polly,
Green corn, come along, Cholly,
Green corn, don'cha tell Polly,
Green corn.
Three months work, and nine vacation.
I'll tell my boss any ol' time
Daytime's his but nighttime's mine,
Green corn, come along...
Is two little kids to call me pappy,
One named Bill, the other named Davy,
They like their biscuits slopped in gravy,
Green corn, come along...