Root, Hog, or Die! (II)

DESCRIPTION: A bull-whacker recalls good times in Salt Lake City when his Chinese whore could roll her hog eye, and he would root hog or die.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE:
KEYWORDS: bawdy whore foreigner
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Randolph/Legman-RollMeInYourArms I, pp. 576-582, "Root, Hog or Die!" (4 texts, 1 tune)
Fife/Fife-CowboyAndWesternSongs 11, "Root Hog or Die" (2 texts, 1 tune, with the "A" and "B" texts being different forms of the song. "A" appears to be a cleaned-up version of this form.)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Root, Hog, or Die" [Laws B21] and references there
NOTES [94 words]: The supplemental texts supplied by Legman in Randolph/Legman-RollMeInYourArms I are more interesting than the one stanza fragment that Randolph collected. - EC
[Note: Randolph actually collected five "clean" versions of this piece, but all -- except that listed as "Root Hog or Die (Confederate Version)" -- are quite fragmentary. - RBW]
I am not entirely sure that the Fife "A" text is a variant of this piece (though it starts in the same way). But if it isn't, it needs its own entry -- and I'm tired of the proliferation of "Root Hog or Die" versions.... - RBW
File: RL576

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