Our Singing Country

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	Our Singing Country
	OLD SHOES AND LEGGIN'S /. No. 1355. Uncle Alex Dtmsford, Galax, Va •> 1937* Other stanzas from Angie Clark, Mullins, S.C. See Sh.2, 935 Cox, p. 492 • Be, p: 264. "He was an old rich man that had plenty of money and plenty of gold and silver, and this girl's mother wanted her to be nice to him and try to keer fer him because he was a wealthy man; and the girl—he simply didn't appeal to her, and naturally she didn't want him at any cost. "In the mountains you'd sing this song any time that the mother begin to talk to the daughters about marryin' some old man, when probably maybe they already kindly felt like they was in love or fancyin' some young man in the neighboring county. Then they sang it as a kind of protest song." —Aunt Molly Jackson.
	1   A man that was old came a-courtin? one day And the girls wouldn't have him 5 He came down the lane and walked on a cane, With his old shoes on and his leggin's. 2  Mamma told me to open the door, I shan't have him; I opened the door and shoved him to the floor, With his old shoes on and his leggin's. [13*]