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Thread #41872   Message #2543406
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
19-Jan-09 - 05:04 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Down on Penney's Farm / Penny's Farm
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Down on Penney's Farm / Penny's Farm
This may have originated as a minstrel song. It was sung in colleges way back in the 1860s.

Also see thread on Pichelo Farm: Pichelo Farm

PEACH BLOW FARM

I have a lovely Dinah,
There's none that can outshine her,
You may kiss her if you find her,
Way down at the Peach Blow Farm.

Chorus.
We won't go there any more, (3x)
Way down at the Peach Blow Farm.
There's a balm in Gilead, (3x)
Way down at the Peach Blow Farm.

-Rig-jag-jig-jag-jig (2x)
-Rig-jag-jig-jag-jig-jag-jig-jag
-Rig-jag-jig-jag-jig.*

2
Her father's name was Moses
Her cheeks were red as roses,
And her shoes were out at the toeses,
Way down at the Peach Blow Farm.

3
When I asked her if she loved me,
She said she felt above me,
And then she up and shoved me,
Way down to the Peach Blow Farm.

P. 244, Songs of Rochester University.
H. R. Waite, Coll. and editor, 1868, Carmina Collegensia: A Composite Collection of the Songs of the American Colleges, with Piano-forte Accompaniment. Oliver Ditson & Co., NY.

* This supplementary chorus is from a song of that name, and was used as an interjected chorus in several college songs. An index to the songs in "Carmina Collegensia" has been posted in the 19th c. song book thread.