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Thread #438 Message #3795887
Posted By: Richie
15-Jun-16 - 10:02 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 Mississippi version probably circa 1908, which can be arranged:
"Make me a palat on de flo', "Make me a palat on de flo', Make it in de kitchen behin' de do', "Make me a palat on de flo'.
Odum began collecting in Mississippi in 1904. The 'palat' lyric appears in another related song he collected.
MAKE ME A PALAT ON DE FLO' Folk-song and Folk-poetry as found in the Secular Songs of the Southern Negroes: Part 1 by Howard Odum.
"Make me a palat on de flo', Make it in de kitchen behin' de do'.
"Oh, don't turn good man from yo' do', May be a frien', babe, you don't know.
"Oh, look down dat lonesome lan', Made me a palat on de flo'.
"Oh, de reason I love Sarah Jane, Made me a palat on de flo'."