Crutcher, Lena

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voice Collected by Irene Carlisle Mr. Lena Crutcher Transcribed by Mary C. Warier N. Thompson Street Springdale, Ark. February 14, 1951 Reel 90, Item 1 Johnson's Mule Learned from Negro farm hands near Nashville and McMinnville, Tennessee. Johnson had an old gray mule, He hitched him to the cart; He loved that mule and the mule loved him With all that muley's heart. That mule would say, "Hee-haw, hee-haw, hee-haw." That mule, that mule would say, That mule would say "Hee haw." The cock did crow, and Johnson knowed That day was a-bound to break; He curried that mule with the leg of a stool And brushed him with a rake. That mule, that mule would say, "Hee-haw." That mule would say, "Hee-haw, hee-haw, hee-haw." Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation.

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Ozark Folksong Collection

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University of Arkansas