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Thread #97649   Message #1926453
Posted By: GUEST,Bob Coltman
04-Jan-07 - 10:41 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Sail Away Ladies
Subject: RE: Origin: Sail Away Ladies
Ruth Crawford Seeger, in American Folk Songs for Children, has just one verse and refrain for "Tideo," which she calls "Jingle At the Windows":

Jingle at the window, Tideo,
Skip two windows, Tideo,
Skip three windows, Tideo,
Jingle at the windows, Tideo.

Jing-ling, jing-ling, jing-ling Jo,
Jingle at the windows, Tideo.

Her source was "Tideo," in William A. Owens, Swing and Turn: Texas Play-Party Games, Tardy Publishing Co, 1936. Haven't seen it. Unfortunately the song isn't in Owens' Texas Folk Songs, which I have seen.

The melody is not particularly close to the "Sally Ann"-style tune of "Sail Away Ladies," though it does bear some resemblance.

Bob