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Thread #37840   Message #970400
Posted By: masato sakurai
21-Jun-03 - 09:49 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Paw Paw Patch
Subject: Lyr & Tune Add: PAWPAW LAND
From B.A. Botkin, The American Play-Party Song (Frederick Ungar, 1937, 1963, pp. 289-290):
                      PAWPAW LAND

    Cf. "Bouquet Patch (Pawpaw Patch)," Shearin and Combs (Kentucky), p. 38 (excerpt); "Way Down in the Paw Paw Patch," Wolford (Indiana), p. 101.
    Played linke BOSTON, to a similar tune.

                                 A
            (Sung by Levi Wilcox, Noble, Cleveland County [, Oklahoma])

X:1
T:Pawpaw Land
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:F
B:B.A. Botkin, The American Play-Party Song, p. 290
C/ C/ D F> F|A c/ c/ A F|E/ E/ G G> G|E E/ E/ D C|
w:Come a-long, boys, an' le's go an' see her, Come a-long, boys, an' le's go an' see her,
C/ C/ D F> F|A c/ c/ A F|G G D E|F4|]
w:Come a-long, boys, an' le's go an' see her Down in Paw-paw land.

                                 B
             (Fanny W. Kelly, Jefferson, Grant County; Madeline Tarpley, Shamrock, Texas.)
       1. Come along boys, and we'll all go see her, (Three times.)
                Way down in Pawpaw land.

       2. Here, oh, here comes--[name of girl], etc.
       (Repeat, using names of other girls and boys.)
~Masato