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Thread #91633   Message #3017946
Posted By: GUEST,999
28-Oct-10 - 03:35 PM
Thread Name: Origins: 'Cindy Cindy' - how old is it?
Subject: RE: Origins: 'Cindy Cindy' - how old is it?
"Cindy" ("Cindy, Cindy") is a popular American Folk song. According to John Lomax, the song originated in North Carolina. It is familiar from the chorus:
Get along home, Cindy Cindy,
Get along home, Cindy Cindy,
Get along home, Cindy Cindy,
I'll marry you some day
One of the earliest versions of "Cindy" is found in Anne Virginia Culbertson's collection of Negro folktales (At the Big House, where Aunt Nancy and Aunt 'Phrony Held Forth on the Animal Folks, Bobbs-Merrill, 1904) where one of her characters, Tim, "sang a plantation song named 'Cindy Ann'," the first verse and refrain of which are:

I'se gwine down ter Richmond,
I'll tell you w'a hit's for:
I'se gwine down ter Richmond,
Fer ter try an' end dis war.
An'-a you good-by, Cindy, Cindy
Good-by, Cindy Ann;
An'-a you good-by, Cindy, Cindy
I'se gwine ter Rappahan.[1]


That`s from Wikipedia. If it`s been noted before, apologies. No time and a slow computer.