I Got a White Man Running My Automobile
Words by Harry Zaun
Music by Halsey K. Mohr
Published 1906

[verse 1]
Abe Jackson was a lucky coon
and he always had the dough
He broke his leg on a trolley car
and got five thousand or so,
He said I think I've enough spare change
for to buy an automobile,
With a poor white man to run it for me
how happy I would feel

[chorus]
I got a white man running my Automo automo,
running my automobile,
You never can know, till you get the dough
how happy it makes you feel,
I eats the best of chicken stew,
If my money gives out I'll steal,
Just to keep that white man running my automo,
running my automobile

[verse 2]
This yaller coon's coin soon gave out
and he tried that game a game
He said if I break off both legs this time
perhaps they'll give me ten,
He got on a car but he jumped too far
and was hit by an auto passing by,
On a grave stone near in words carved clear
they put there when he died

[repeat chorus]