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Thread #58247 Message #925854
Posted By: Stewie
04-Apr-03 - 02:25 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Careless Love (various versions)
Subject: ADD fragment: Careless Love (Randolph-Legman)
Randolph also has the following fragment from an elderly gentleman, Mr J.E. Webster Groves, Missouri 8 April 1948. He learned it about 1880:
What will Mammy say to me
What will Mammy say to me
What will Mammy say to me
When I go home with a big bell-ee?
I'll tell her to hold her tongue
I'll tell her to hold her tongue
I'll tell her to hold her tongue
She loved pecker when she was young
[Vance Randolph (Ed G.Legman) 'Blow the Candle Out: Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore Vol II' Uni Arkansas Press, 1992, p 647'.
--Stewie.