"Left! Left! I left my wife and 49 kids..." (Hoosier Folklore)

[sagehen]

 The version I learned was:

Left, left,
Left my wife & forty-eight kids
To starve to death
On nothing but gingerbread.

Left, left
(repeat.....)

A. Murie

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