Lyr Add: Piney Woods Ballad (fiddle tune)

Subject: Lyr Add: PINEY WOODS BALLAD (fiddle tune)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 07:42 PM

Lyr. Add: PINEY WOODS BALLAD

Come all ye swamp gals an' listen to my noise,
Don' be courted by the piney woods boys;
For iffen you marry 'em yer po'tion will be
Cawnbread an' bacon- that's all ye'll ever see.

Refrain (after each verse):
Say! don' let the hoecake git too brown!

When ye go to the cowpen, ye must milk in a gourd
Set it in the corner, kiver it with a board:
That is the way of the piney woods race;
They're lazy and shiftless an' alus a disgrace.

If ye go a'courtin', they'll set ye in a chur
An' fust thing they ask is, 'ken ye kill a dur?
They wear great big hats an' little bits of brims
All trussed round with pieces of strin's.

pp. 155-156, Cella's wedding day, in Cecile Hulse Matschat, 1938, "Suwannee River, Strange Green Land."

Song set to a fiddle dance tune, not given, in this book about the Suwannee River of north Florida.
Are the words familiar to anyone, and what is the tune?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: PINEY WOODS BALLAD (fiddle tune)
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 08:00 PM

i KNOW IT AS ARKANSAS BOYS.