Well, there's "Darling Alalee" which I learned from the Blue Sky Boys, who recorded it some time in the late 1930s: DARLING ALALEE Oh Alalee, so dear to me, She's gone forevermore Our home was down in Tennessee Before the cruel war Then carry me back to Tennessee, There is where I long to be Among the fields of yellow corn With darling Alalee Oh why did I from day to day Keep wishing to be free And from my master run away And leave my Alalee They said that I'd be soon be free And happy all the day But if they'll take me back again I'll never run away. (Myself, I prefer Darling Nellie Gray, all five verses)
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