Our Singing Country
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Our Singing Country |
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No. 828 |
KATY DOREY
Aunt Molly Jackson, New York City, |
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See Sh, 2:1195 Ga.2, p. 393. |
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"The larger children would sing these little funny songs and us smaller children would hear 'em} and we'd get together and sing 'em and make a big laugh out of 'em. This particular Sunday we was all down under a big shade tree swingin' on the limb and* a-singin' one,
"My grandfather hollered over to my father and said what was he a-doin* settiny over there not correctin' his children and them a-singin' sich rough songs as that. And my father he hollered back over to my grandÂfather and he said} 'If that's all that you've got to do/ he says} 'is to be out/ he saysy 'a-payin' attention/ he says. Ho what babies and children says/ he says; 'if you don't want these little children/ says} Ho sing these things and do these things/ says} 'correct your children that's much larger and older than them an' stop them singin' these songs before them and then/ says} 'I'll ashore you/ says, 'that my babies and Ranee Rollins's babies won't be a-singin' these songs they learned from the bigger kids/ he says."
—Aunt Molly Jackson. |
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1 Come all you joky boys And listen to my story 3 HI tell you a plan I fell upon To steal Miss Katy Dorey.*
* In other versions, "Kittie Morey," or "Katy Morey." |
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