"Jump Jim Crow" was a key initial step in a tradition of popular music in the United States that was based on the racist "imitation" of black people.

Other verses, quoted in non-dialect standard English:[6] Come, listen, all you girls and boys, I'm just from Tuckahoe; I'm going to sing a little song, My name's Jim Crow.

I met Miss Dina Scrub one day, I give her such a buss [kiss]; And then she turn and slap my face, and make a mighty fuss.

I whip the lion of the west, I eat the alligator; I put more water in my mouth, then boil ten load of potatoe.

As he extended it from a single song into an entire minstrel revue, Rice routinely wrote additional verses for "Jump Jim Crow".

[7][8] Verses range from the boastful doggerel of the original version to an endorsement of President Andrew Jackson (known as "Old Hickory"); his Whig opponent in the 1832 election was Henry Clay:[9] Old hick'ry never mind de boys But hold up your head; For people never turn to clay 'Till arter dey be dead.

[10] The song also condemns Virginia for being the birthplace of George Washington, and the landing place for slaves from Guinea in Africa.

But bress dat Baltimore, Wid a monument of stun, Erected to de memory, Ob great massa Washington.

The crows eat the corn and become so drunk that they cannot fly, but wheel and jump helplessly near the ground, where the farmer can kill them with a club.