Cat. #0134 (MFH #130) - As sung by Mr. Doney Hammontree, Farmington, Arkansas on June 21, 1958
VERSE 1
My name it's, Dick German, the cobbler
I've served my time out in camp
They call me a rotten patater
So I thought I had better repent
CHORUS:
With a wingo, wang, wingo, wang, wingo
With a wingo, wang, wingo, wang, wing
With my hub-blub-blub-blub-blarrey
Whack, faldy-rah, diddly-la, day
VERSE 2
For seven long years I been roving
With all my contents on my back
My nipper, peg, awl and shoe hammer
I've carried them all in my pack
VERSE 3
But now, since my rovin is over
I've made some change in my life
But now as my rovin was over
I buckled myself to a wife
VERSE 4
My wife she was blue-eyed and blinkey
My wife she was blue-eyed and black
She's th devils grandmother for scoldin
And her tongue it went clickety clack
VERSE 5
My wife and I quarrled one morning
We quarrled before it was day
And I ducked her three times in the river
And I quitely bid her good-day