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	10  Snowbird died with whooping cough, Crawfish died with colic, Jaybird died with a sick headache, Inquiring the way to the frolic. {Chorus i and 2.) 11  When I git one dram, Then I want two. When I get on a high lonesome I don't care what I do. (Chorus 1 and 2.) KING WILLIAM WAS KING GEORGE'S SON* g. No. 1365. Mr. and Mrs. Crockett Ward, Galax, Va., 1937. See Bot, p. 227. "It was mostly skippin' and swingin' each other around in those days, not this hug gin'-up business like today. Of course the play parties was used a lot for courting you might say; but so was the Sunday singings and camp meetin'sy too, for that matter. When you get young people together they's goin' to be courtin'. Now I think a play party's a pretty good place for young folks to find out about each othery how they can get along with peopley and if a girl's got any life about hery anything about her to like besides her looks. And a slicked-up boy now—many a girl's found out how little sense such a boy has got when she sees him alongside a bunch 0' right clever fellers; ory maybe she's been a-holdin' his good looks against himy and she finds out he's got more sense than she thought he had and can hold with the smartest of 'em. There ain't no harm in a decent-conducted play party or singin' partyy as I can see."