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Thread #59756   Message #2160060
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
29-Sep-07 - 04:44 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Happy Miner/Unhappy Miner (Old Put)
Subject: RE: ADD: Happy Miner/Unhappy Miner (Old Put)
Found by googling "I get in a weaving way." Chapman Family Papers, 1848-1881, mention "I get in a weaving way" as a song sent to William Chapman in the army (Civil War) by James Chapman, and "said to be a Negro tune." Another sent at the same time was "Things I Don't Like to See."

So far no luck. Not in Traditional Ballad Index, American Memory, Levy or Bodleian under that title.