Azizi, many of us have a different edition of Talley's book, "Negro Folk Rhymes, a new expanded Edition, with Music," Edited Charles K. Wolfe, pub. Univ. Tennessee. It includes "A Study in Negro Folk Rhymes" (pp. 233-285) as well as a number of songs not in the 1922 edition. None of the page numbers march those in the edition you have, so it takes looking in the index to get matched up, e. g., "She Hugged..." is on p. 113-114 with music score. I should have looked for it and would not have run together two separate songs. I assume the edition you have has the same material but it is differently arranged.

The note with "She Hugged...," that 'bed-cord strong' referred to the 18th c. practice of using ropes strung across bed frames, should be extended to the 19th c.; I have a bed which is made that way, dating about 1850 and used not uncommonly in rural areas and on the westward-moving frontier.