The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #172467 Message #4174320
Posted By: Lighter
10-Jun-23 - 08:10 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Jailer's Song (1920s, Bawdy)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Jailer's Song (1920s, Bawdy)
The jail song is an dysphemistic travesty of George F. Root's Civil War hit, "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! or, The Prisoner's Hope" (1864, which begins,
"In the prison cell I sit, thinking mother, dear, of you...."
"Ball of Yarn" was inspired by "Winding Up Her Little Ball of Yarn" (1884), by Earl Marble and Polly Holmes:
https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/139/059