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Thread #8912 Message #3249859
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
03-Nov-11 - 03:56 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Goodnight Irene
Subject: RE: Origin: Goodnight Irene
A verse used in this song was collected by Perrow in 1909.
Lyr. Add: SOMETIMES I LIB IN DE COUNTRY
Sometimes I lib in de country,
Sometimes I lib in town;
En sometimes I hab uh notion
Tuh jump in de ribber en drown.
Collected from East Tennessee Negroes, 1909.
E. C. Perrow, 1915, Songs and Rhymes from the South, Jour. American Folklore, vol. 28, pp. 129-190.