All Hid

Informant/Performer: Source:
Bessie Jones Kate Rinzler, ed.
Los Angeles, CA, 1970 Old Mother Hippletoe
Recorded by Bess Lomax Hawes New World Records 291, 1978
h = 72
Call: Response: Call: Response:
C
Hon ey, hon ey bee ball, I can't see y'all. All hid? No. Is all hid? No.

I went to the ri ver. I could n't get a cross. I paid five doll ars for a old gray horse.

One leg broke, the oth er leg cracked, and great God a might y how the horse did rack.
Resp. Call Resp.

Is all hid? No. Is all hid? No.

I went down the road , the road was mud dy. Stumped my toe , and made it blood y.

Resp. Call Resp.

Is all hid? No. Is all hid? No.

Me and my wife 'n'_a bob tail dog, we crossed that ri ver on a hick' ry log.

She fell in, and I fell off, It left no bo dy but the bob tail dog.
Resp. Call Resp.

Is all hid? No. Is all hid? No.

One, Two, I don't know what to do. Nine, ten, my eyes op'n, I'm look in'.
Three, four, I don't know where to go.
Five, six, I'm in a ter ri ble fix. Transcribed by Cynthia Stuck
Seven, eight, I made a mis take.
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