Mudcat Café message #523250

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Thread #37475 Message #523250
Posted By: Margo
08-Aug-01 - 01:13 AM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: Jaybird Died of the Whooping Cough
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: JAYBIRD DIED OF THE WHOOPING

Hey now wait a minute!!! I thought of Buckeye Jim at first, but the meter of the rhyme and the similarity to such a verse makes me wonder if it isn't "Cotton Eyed Joe". I have a recording of it on a Freighthoppers album "Where did you come from where did you go?". I wonder.....Margo