Jaybird Sitting on a Hickory Limb

DESCRIPTION: ""A jaybird sitting on a hickory limb, All around over to Jordan, I upped with a rock and hit him on the shin, Oh, Jerusalem!" "Shine on, shine on, All across over to Jordan, Shine on, shine on, Oh, Jerusalem!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1952 (Browne-AlabamaFolkLyric)
KEYWORDS: floatingverses nonballad injury bird
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Browne-AlabamaFolkLyric 182, "Jaybird Sitting on a Hickory Limb" (1 short text, 1 tune)
MidwestFolklore, W. L. McAtee, "Odds and Ends of North American Folklore on Birds," Volume 5, Number 3 (Fall 1955), p. 180-181, "(Ole Massa Buzzard, 'yo needn't fly so high)" (9 stanzas, probably from multiple sources, but some of the stanzas appear similar to this)
Roud #4618
NOTES [50 words]: Roud files this with "Jim Along Josie." It is certainly composed of elements common in other songs, but I don't see that particular link. I'm filing it separately until a clear source comes along; it's probably a couple of fragments that Browne-AlabamaFolkLyric's informant accidentally lumped. - RBW
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File: Brne182

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