12-Stringer,

Meade includes 'Take Me Home, Poor Julia' in his section titled 'Black Face Minstrel Pieces'. ['Kitty Clyde' and 'Little Bird' are included under 'Miscellaneous Love Lyrics']. He gives no info or citations except to 2 books which contain related pieces: Lydia Parrish 'Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands' Hatboro, Pennsylvania: Folklore Associates Inc 1965 pp122-23 and H.M. Belden and Arthur Palmer Hudson, Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, III, #421, 506-7.

The sole recorded reference is to Uncle Dave's 1927 recording for Vocalion.

--Stewie.