Jenny Get Your Oatcake Done
(Alternately: Jenny Get Your Hoecake Done, Jenny Get Your Hoe Cakes Done)
For information on this song as part of the blackface minstrel tradition, please see
its page in The Juba Project's Minstrelsy Database.
Credits
Art Babayants, piano; Alison Jutzi, vocals; Dennis Patrick, sound technician.
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Lyrics
Verse 1
I’ve cum from Warginny, an berry soon mean
To tell you ob all I hab heard and seen_
I gib de Gal a kiss or so,
An I said to her jis ’fore I go.
Verse 2
Now my dear ole JENNY I lub you true,
An I tink all day an all night ob you,
An when at night I go to bed,
I dream ob your sweet big black head.
Verse 3
I call’d one day _ she war fast asleep,
When I seed a sight dat made me weep;
On de fryin-pan some Nig had wrote,
An dese war de words ob dat dere note_
Verse 4
Not in all Warginny war dere eber known,
A Gal turn so pale wid her color flown;
I take an arx her who twar wrote
De words in dat heartrending note.
Verse 5
She stood for a minute, not a breath war heard,
An she neber said one single word; _
Wid her sweet thumb she wrote dat line
For dey were de las sweet words ob mine.
Verse 6
An now MISS JENNY am my own chum chum,
I tink ob ole times an her dear fat thumb;
Our boys an gals, _ we’ve two or three;
All sing to deir Mudder jis like me,
Chorus
O, JENNY get your oatcake done, my Lady,
Jenny get your oatcake done.
O, JENNY get your oatcake done, my Lady,
Jenny get your oatcake done.
Publication Information
Published by B. Williams, II. Paternoster Row, & 170 Gt. Dovor Rd., London.
British Library Shelf Number: H.2342