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Thread #48078   Message #720223
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
30-May-02 - 11:26 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Gideon's Band (Al Hopkins & Buckle Busters
Subject: RE: Help: GIDEON'S BAND, not DT version
Looks like one of the put-together, "upstart crows" that were popular with Negro as well as white children. There is one in Newman L. White, American Negro Folk Songs, with verses about Noah. Typical verses are:

In come de animuls five by five,
Almost dead and hardly alive;
Dem bones gonna rise again.

In come de animuls seben by seben,
Fo' from Hell and de others from Heaven;
Dem bones gonna rise again.

White calls these "upstart crows." When I get time, I may start a thread on them.