Down in the Valley
Channel: Stephen Griffith
Date: 12/06/2020

Day 88 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series.

Sandburg writes: "Here are nine verses of a poem as idle as the wind. It is an old fashioned lyric, simple in its stitches yet as fixed in its design as certain "kiverlids" made by housewives in the Kentucky mountains.

"I have heard the remark, "It is a good song to be singing while writing a love letter. It is  full of wishes and dances a little and hopes a beloved dancing partner will come back!*

The  text and tune are from Frances Ries of Batavia, Ohio."