I Dreamed Last Night of My True Love
Channel: Stephen Griffith
Date: 2020-06-13

Day 89 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series.

Sandburg writes: "English travelers have said it is the 17th century language of England that is spoken in certain  isolated mountain and seaboard corners of America. Among these pocketed populations they say  "poke" for "pocket," "my may" for "my sweetheart," and asking a kiss, "Come buss me." , . .

The mountaineer may remark of his horse, "That mare is the loveliest runner and the sensiblest  animal I ever saddled," or he may give places names such as Shoo Bird Mountain, Shake-a-rag  Holler, or Huggins Hell.

Once in Kentucky a wanderer inquiring the route was told he was on the  right road and to go on " about two screeches and a holler." . . . The independent lingo and manner  of the mountaineer is in this text and tune from Mrs. Mark . Hutchinson of Mount Vernon, Iowa.