The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #37840 Message #2553367
Posted By: Janie
30-Jan-09 - 09:37 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Paw Paw Patch
Subject: RE: Origins: Paw Paw Patch, anyone?
We used to go out in the woods in the fall with my Pawpaw and gather paw paws.
I have a song fragment running through my head that I can't match with anything in which the first 2 lines of a verse are
Way down yonder in the paw paw patch
Met a little girl named sassafras....
Does anyone recall hearing that phrase in a dance song?
I'm associating it with a tune awfully close to "My Dixie Darling", so it may have been a made-up verse used by a dance band and caller somewhere.