Recollection of singing ""little funny songs"" with other children, interspersed with various verses, among them some from ""Greasy String"" and ""Old Molly Hare.""
Song performed twice on Lomax's request (unclear if this is during or following the talent show preceding on disc). Identified as Henrietta and Ernestine Wilson on AFS card
names here announced by E.L. Harold on 1561A1. Guitar assigned arbitrarily.
Likely learned from a Chubby Parker record (Gennett and associated labels, 1927 or Conqueror, 1931). Guitar assigned arbitrarily. Performance at a talent show before an audience in an unidentified setting.
Identified as Henrietta and Ernestine Wilson on AFS card
names here announced by E.L. Harold on 1561A1. Harold also announces the site of the Lewis session as Wrigley, Ky., seven miles north of West Liberty, although W.L. appears on AFS card. Guitar arbitrarily assigned.
Possibly learned from the Asa Martin-Roy Hobbs record (Champion, 1932) or Martin-Doc Roberts record (ARC, 1934). Guitar arbitrarily assigned. Lewis' name appears as "Don Reda" on AFS card
assumption made that "Dawn" is the appropriate spelling. (Lomax also announces her name as "Dawn Leda.")
Identified as Henrietta and Ernestine Wilson on AFS card
names here announced by E.L. Harold on 1561A1. Harold also announces the site of the Lewis session as Wrigley, Ky., seven miles north of West Liberty, although W.L. appears on AFS card. Guitar arbitrarily assigned.
Currently as: Lomax, John A., Alan Lomax, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Folk Songs and Ballads. Dover, 2000.
Discussion follows. A fragment of a play-party song learned from a Mrs. Cox who was then living in Barren Co. AFS card credits Effie Wilson with dulcimer but is is sung unaccompanied.