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Thread #37840   Message #2630322
Posted By: Jim Dixon
12-May-09 - 06:13 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Paw Paw Patch
Subject: Lyr Add: WAY DOWN IN THE PAW PAW PATCH (Indiana)
From The Play-Party in Indiana by Leah Jackson Wolford (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Commission, 1916), page 101:

WAY DOWN IN THE PAW PAW PATCH.
Mrs. Leslie Beal, Versailles, Ind.*

Where oh where is pretty little ——?
Pretty little ——, pretty little ——?
Where oh where is pretty little ——?
Way down in the paw paw patch.

By and by we'll go and meet her,
Go and meet her, go and meet her,
By and by we'll go and meet her,
Way down in the paw paw patch.

Won't that be a happy meeting,
Happy meeting, happy meeting?
Won't that be a happy meeting,
Way down in the paw paw patch?

[*I assume this is the informant from whom the song was collected, not the songwriter.]