A corn-shocking refrain. Tune, "Jango Malango-ho!"
Dedicated to Col. Henry W. McCorry, of Jackson, Tenn.
By Gen. W.T. Haskell, of Tennessee.
- A Jaybird lived on the Forked deer,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- And a blue-bird lived him neighbor near,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- And he with the Jay-bird court a Tom-tit,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- The Blue-bird laughed and the Blue-bird swore,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- That he never saw such fun before,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- Says the Jay-bird, "Blue-coat you be done,"
- Jango Malango-ho!
- "Or I'll stop your way of poking fun,"
- Jango Malango-ho!
- But the Blue-bird kept on laughing all,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- Says the Jay-bird, "Go it, have your will,"
- Jango Malango-ho!
- So the Jay-bird winked at the Blue-bird's sister,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- And flew to the Paw-paw bush and kissed her,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- The Blue-bird ripped, and the Blue-bird swore,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- That he was never no mind before,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- So he fluttered about, and he could not rest,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- And he went and spoiled the Jay-birds nest,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- Then the Jay-bird eloped with the Blue-bird's wife,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- And it almost took the Blue-bird's life,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- And all the birds from the Crow to the Wren,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- They poked their fun at the Blue-bird then,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- And the Blue-bird moved from the Forked deer,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- But where the Jay-bird did not hear,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- For the Blue-bird went to Arkansas,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- But the Jay-bird still stuck in his craw,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- And he cried one day with melancholy,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- Because he did commit the folly,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- To laugh at the Jay-bird and the Tom-tit,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- As he was sitting atop the saw-pit,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- And because he thought it all for the best,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- To go and spoil the Jay-bird's nest,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- And he wiped his bill and signed his will,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- And the will is in the family still,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- And he left to his son this last request,
- Jango Malango-ho!
- To never fool with a Jay-bird's nest,
- Jango Malango-ho!
In the stage of Nashville, on the way there with McCorry, in December, 1841.