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Thread #41872   Message #2543644
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
19-Jan-09 - 10:38 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Down on Penney's Farm / Penny's Farm
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Down on Penney's Farm / Penny's Farm
DOWN ON THE PICHELO FARM

Fragment remembered by Mr. Clyde Sharp, Pack, MO, 1928, as part of a play-party song popular ... in 1910.

I got a gal named Dinah,
The people cain't outshine her,
An' I'll take a kiss if I find her
Down on the Pichelo farm.

Her father's name was Moses
Her shoes was out the toeses
...............
Down on the Pichelo farm.
An' a rig jag jig jag jig jag (3x)
Down on the Pichelo farm.

Vance Randolph, Ozark Folksongs, vol. 3, no. 572.
Randolph also mentions lines in "Over There" published by Bradley Kincaid in "My Favorite Mountain Ballads, 1938, p. 32 (dropped in later printings), and Botkin, American Play-Party Song, 1937, pp. 298-299, and the college song "Bingo" (verses end 'Way down on the Bingo farm').