Some of these days I’ll see Betty,
An’ it won’t be long, no, no, it won’t be long.
If I could see her just one mo’ time,
My mind would be changed all the time.
The jailer told Dupree, “Just be good,”
And he surely would, yes, yes, he surely would.
Dupree was the best man in the pen
Just to get that thing, yes, yes, that thing.
Another illustration of the common promiscuity of these current songs adapted as a part of the physical effort of work is the following mongrel song of the self-styled bad man who mixes metaphors and lines to his own satisfaction.
I’m Goin’ out West