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Our Singing Country
LOLLY TOO-DUM
/#. No. 1384.. Abner Boggs, Harlan County, Ky., 1937. Other stanzas from Mrs. Emma Dusenberry, Mena, Ark. See Hu, p. 280; Sh, 2:1595 Be, p. 266.
One familiar form of folk song carries forward its theme by question and reply of two actors, usually a boy and a girl—a form often used a genera­tion ago in courting bees, neighborhood concerts and on the amateur stage. In America such songs were sometimes called "answer-back" songs. A popu­lar duet of this type began:
Tommy: Pretty, pretty Polly Hopkins, howdy do, howdy do?
Polly: Pm none the better, Tommy Tompkins, for seeing you, for seeing you.