“I ain’t no billy goat.”
Standin’ on de platform,
Worried in both heart an’ soul;
An’ befo’ I’d take yo’ man
I’d eat grass like a Georgia mule.
I love my man
Lak I love myse’f.
If he don’t have me
He won’t have nobody else.
Now this song is a mixture of several popular blues. The first stanza is from the House Rent Blues, and is sung practically the same as on the phonograph record. The second stanza is from the Salt Water Blues and is like the original except for the repetition in the original of the first two lines. The third stanza is also from the Salt Water Blues, but it is a combination and variation of two stanzas which go as follows: