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Thread #49461   Message #3526458
Posted By: Jim Dixon
14-Jun-13 - 02:32 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Porcupine Song
Subject: Lyr Add: IN DE VINTER TIME (from Carl Sandburg)
From The American Songbag by Carl Sandburg (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1927), page 334:

IN DE VINTER TIME

This is sung by superincumbent cucumbers in Iowa and elsewhere. We have it from students and faculty members of Cornell College. The tempo is mazurka and came with Polish and Czeko-Slovak emigration to the Corn Belt.

Lively. Tempo di mazurka - Arr. A. G. W.


In de vinter, in de vintortime,
Ven de vin' blows on de vindow-pane.
An' de vimmen, in de vaud'vil
Ride de velocipede in de vestibule,
All, vimmens! Ah, mens!