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Thread #117312   Message #3025361
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
06-Nov-10 - 03:45 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Ginny's Gone to Ohio/Ginny's Gone Away
Subject: RE: Origins: Ginny's Gone to Ohio/Ginny's Gone Away
Fragment-

Jenny shake her toe at me,
Jenny gone away;
Jenny shake her toe at me,
Jenny gone away.

Hurrah! Miss Susy, oh!
Jenny gone away;
Hurrah! Miss Susy, oh!
Jenny gone away.

American Quarterly, 1967, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
Chadwick Hansen, Jenny's Toe: Negro Shaking Dances in America

Article not seen- first page, jstor.org
(Fanny Kemble book, c. 1838, is the source of the song in this article).

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, Frances Anne Kemble. Also a portion of the book in Google.
Used as a rowing song on the Altamaha River, tune a little like "Coming Through the Rye" according to Kemble, p. 128 of her journal.
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