Bangum Rode the Riverside- Hightower (Oklahoma- Virginia) 1964 Moore A, with music
[From "Ballads and Folk songs of the Southwest" by Ethel and Chauncey O. Moore (1964, University of Oklahoma Press). This version has the same opening stanza as Jean Ritchie's. Ritchie took a traditional fragment of the ballad and added to it.
R. Matteson 2014]
BANGUM RODE THE RIVERSIDE- sung by Mrs. Paul Hightower of Sallisaw, Oklahoma. She learned it from her grandfather who was from Virginia.
Bangum rode the riverside,
Didley, O day dum
Bangum rode the riverside,
With two horses and a slide,
Quadley O que, quidley O quey,
Didley, O day dum.
There's a wild hog in these woods,
Bangum chased him to his den
And found the bones of a thousand men.
Bangum drew his wooden knife,
Bangum drew his wooden knife,
Swore he'd take that wild hog's life.