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8  Where'd you git yoJ butter * fum, tic.
9  Got it fum de grocy, tic.
io Where'd you git yo? gloves fum, tic.
11   Got ?em fum de dry goods, etc.
12  Mary was a red bird, red bird, red bird, Mary was a red bird
All day long!
* "If the baby don* go to sleep by now, you can jes* keep on an' on, th'ough all de ingreemunts oJ de cake."
COTTON EYE JOE
Margaret Valiant and Tannis Tugwell, 1937. They learned the song from a mountain woman in Tennessee. See L0.2, p. 2625 Whi, p. 3595 Sc.i, p. 69. See No. 1619.
i Where did you come from, Where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton Eye Joe?
2 Come for to see you, Come for to sing, Come for to show you My diamond ring.
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