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II. 2. NEGRO GAME SONGS
This group of gay, gamboling airs the Negroes learned directly from white singers. They have made a few characteristic changes—syncopations, introduction of earthy lines and of familiar words for unfamiliar ones. The eight melodies, gathered from across the whole South, have common family likenesses. They are related to the white play-party tunes on the one hand and to the Bahaman Negro songs on the other.
LADIES IN THE DININ' ROOM
/'#. No. 88. Alabama Negro children, Atmore, Ala., 1934. See Mem., 16:183.
A choose-your-love, kissing-game song.
i Ladies in the dinin' room, Sittin? by the fi-ah, Lost her slipper and she fell down, Raise your foot up high-ah.
l Choose the one the ring goes round, Choose the one with money. Choose the one they call Annie Lee,* Kiss your darlin' honey.
* Or the name of any one of the group of players.
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