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Thread #48893   Message #870209
Posted By: GUEST,Q
19-Jan-03 - 09:12 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Limber Jim
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Limber Jim: History & Lyrics
"Black Them Boots" from Randolph, No. 550 in vol. 3. has been posted in this thread. Several other threads have the chorus or chorus plus one verse. The singer, Pauline Petty of Arkansas, in Randolph, couldn't remember the dance figure.
A version from W. P. Detherow of Arkansas, recorded by J. Q. Wolf in 1952 and included in the Wolf Collection, with Audio, contains a description of the figure. Black Them Boots

Lyr. Add: Black Them Boots

Mr. Detherow " ...played considerable...but they don't know that it is a play song, a ring play song."

Black them boots and make them shine;
Goodbye and goodbye.
Black them boots and make them shine;
Go see, Liza Jane.

Chorus:
Oh, how I love her.
Ain't that a shame?
Oh, how I love her;
Swing ol' Liza Jane.
Oh, how I love her.
Ain't that a shame?
Oh, how I love her;
Swing ol' Liza Jane.

River's wide and the channel deep;
Goodbye and goodbye.
The girls are pretty and I know they're sweet;
Goodbye, Liza Jane.

Chorus

Hawk got a chicken and it flew upstairs;
Goodbye and goodbye.
Hawk got a chicken and it flew upstairs;
Goodbye, Liza Jane.

Chorus

Spoken comment by Mr. Detherow: "In this they ring up and they pass right and left through, square dance style, and when they meet they swing once and a half, and then they commence to singing. 'Oh, how I love her; swing ol' Liza Jane,' and this is repeated with diffeent couples."