I think I have all the "World Around Songs" songbooks currently in print. It's in cetmst's copy of THE BRIDGE OF SONG, for Iowa's singing (see above), and I found it in a World Around Songs book currently in print called One Tune More. I also found it in Silver Burdett's fifth-grade music text, Music in Our Country (1956). CRS/WAS has a huge collection of songs, and they use them for publishing custom-order songbooks for various groups.

Cooperative Recreation Service Songbook Index

Silver Burdett Songbook Index

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The Silver Burdett book says "Mingo Mountain" is a Kentucky mountain song, but that's all it says. Silver Burdett says the song was published in Sweet Freedom's Song by the Cooperative Recreation Service. The song is also published in an anthology titled Sweet Rivers of Song: Authentic Ballads, Hymns, Folksongs From the Appalachian Region (compiled by Gladys Jameson, published by Berea College in 1967), titled "The Mingo Mountains," but with the same first line. I don't have that book.
Roud groups this song with "Nine Pound Hammer," #4299. There's no entry for "Mingo Mountain" in the Traditional Ballad Index.

Anybody have the Jameson book????

-Joe-

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Here's the tune, from Silver Burdett's Music in Our Country. The echo is

1. Yes, forty long years....That's my home, that's my home.

2. Yes, rings like mine....Shines like gold, shines like gold.

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