Historical Folk Lyrics
"Johnny Cake - Mississippi Gals"

Come all you Mississippi girls and listen to my noise,
If yoµ happen to go West don't you marry those Texian boys.
For if you do your fortune it will be
Cold Johnny Cake and beefsteak, that's all that you will see,
Cold Johnny Cake and beefsteak, that's all that you will see.
When they come a-courting here's what they wear,
An old leather coat and it's all soiled and tore;
And an old brown hat with the brim tore down,
And a pair of dirty socks they've worn the winter round,
And a pair of dirty socks they've worn the winter round.

When one comes in, the first thing you hear
Is, "Madam, your brother has killed a deer."
And the next thing they say when they sit down Is,
"Madam, the Johnny Cake is too damn brown."

They live in a hut with a hewed log wall,
But it ain't got any windows at all;
With a clapboard roof and a puncheon floor
And that's the way all Texas o'er,
And that's the way all Texas o'er.

They will take you out on a mesquite hill
And there they will leave you against your will;
They will leave you on the prairie, starve you on the plain,
For that is the way with the Tex-i-ans,
For that is the way with the Tex-i-ans,

When they go to preaching let me tell you how they dress,
Just an old black shirt without any vest.
Just an old straw hat with more brim than crown,
And an old sock leg that they wear the winter round,
And an old sock leg that they wear the winter round.
For your supper there'll be beef and corn bread,
There it is to eat when the ceremony's said.
And when you go to milk you'll milk into a gourd.
And set it in a corner and cover it with a board.
Some gets little and some gets none,
For that's the way with the Tex-i-ans,
For that's the way with the Tex-i-ans.