Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Take This Hammer" in English language version.
Gonna take dis ol’ hammer,
Gonna take dis ol’ hammer,
Give it back to jumpin’ Judy,
An’ tell her I’m gone, suh, an’ tell her I’m gone.
Ef she asks you was I runnin’, 3x
You can tell I’s flyin’, you can tell I’s flyin’.
Tell her I crossed the Saint John's River (3x)
With my head hung down.
See John A. and Alan Lomax, American Ballads and Folk Songs (New York, Macmillan, 1934), pp. 82–84. The Lomaxes note that fugitive slaves found refuge beyond the Saint John's River in Florida among the unconquered Seminole Indians. See also Robbie Dawson, "On Whose Way: Thoughts on Jumpin' Judy".
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