Lyrics to "My Sweetheart 's a Mule"

[Dave Oestreich]

I am interested in getting my hands on the lyrics to a 1930's tune
entitled "My Sweetheart's a Mule" Thank you for any response.

[KC King]

Well blow me down but it didn't jump out of Digital Tradition.

As I recall, it went like this:

My sweetheart's a mule in the mines
I drive her without any lines
On the bumper I sit
While tobacco I spit
All over my sweetheart's behind

I always thought of this (as well as the "Turds Song" )as the ultimate
prepubescent potty humor song. Some phase you just never get out of!

Regards, KC

Dave Oestreich wrote in message <6cgbt9$i...@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net>...

[carlhe...@gmail.com]

My father was a coal mine electrical engineer in West Virginia from the 1930s througn the 1960s and used to sing "my sweetheat's a mule in the mine." The lyrics were the same as above. It was a miner's song - nothing juvenile about it - those guys lived with the threat of death every day - rock falls, explosions. My dad saw another man's head crushed between two mine cars - an enduring trauma.

This song was one of several mildly bawdy songs he sang with friends after a few drinks - very pleasant memories of a wonderful man.

[ccg...@gmail.com]

God bless you, my grandfather too was a coal miner, but in Pa. He taught all his children and grandchildren that very song. I sang it to my children and now teaching my grandchildren. Thanks Pops, may you and all coal miners Rest In Peace, and I hope all your songs and traditions continue to be passed along.