The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #438 Message #3795877
Posted By: Richie
15-Jun-16 - 09:31 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor
Subject: RE: Origins: Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor
Hi,
This is a New Orleans blues from the late 1800s. Jelly Roll Morton, who did a version, said the song was in circulation before he was born (1890). Kid Ory played it in one of his bands around 1896. Handy copyrighted the song (1923) as "Atlanta Blues" but knew the melody twenty years earlier. The song was already collected and published by Howard Odum in 1911.