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Posted By: GUEST,henryp
10-Oct-14 - 01:41 PM
Thread Name: fifties popsongs that started as folk
Subject: RE: fifties popsongs that started as folk
1953 "Pretty Little Black Eyed Susie" by Guy Mitchell.
It's a popular bluegrass song, but it's difficult to find its origin. Perhaps it has links to Cripple Creek.
From Mudcat; Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Black-Eye Susie / Black-Eyed Susie From: Jim Dixon Date: 20 Mar 13 - 12:49 PM
A single couplet is quoted in a novel Smiling Pass, by Eliot H. Robinson (Boston: The Page Company, 1921), page 386:
"Hop up, skip up, Black-eyed Susie. Mighty good-lookin' but the boys won't choose ye."