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Professor Kittredge sent me some data about several of the songs, too late to include it easily in the earlier chapters, so I list it here. He writes of one song, Cree-mo-Cri-mo-Doro-Wak:
You're quite right as to the "antique nonsense jingle" character of this. See evidence in the Journal of American Folk-lore, xxxv, 396 (my note on Frog and Mouse). The Waco text ("'way down South") is a variety of the minstrel song discussed on page 399 of same volume. Copy of one version enclosed:
Keemo Kimo1
Celebrated Banjo Song
The only Authentic Version, as sung at George Christy and Wood's Minstrels. (Copyright secured.)
In South Carolina the darkies go,2
Sing song Kitty, can't you ki me 0! Dat's whar de white folks plant de tow,
Sing (&c.) Cover de ground all over wid smoke,
Sing (&c.) And up de darkies' heads dey poke,
Sing (&c).
Chorus: — Keemo kimo, dar, Oh whar! Wid my hi, my ho, and in come Sally singing Sometimes penny winkle, lingtum nipcat Sing song Kitty, can't you ki me 0!
Milk in de dairy nine days old,
Sing (&c.) Frogs and de skeeters getting mighty bold,
Sing (&c.) Dey try for to sleep, but it ain't no use,
Sing (&c.) Dey jump all round in de chicken roost,
Sing (&c.)
Chorus: — (as before.)
Dar was a frog liv'd near a pool,
Sing (&c.) Sure he was de biggest fool,
Sing (&c.)
1 George Christy & Wood's New Song Book, N. Y., cop. 1854, pp. 7, 8. The same, with music, also in sheet form, cop. 1854.
2 Go is an error for grow. |
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