The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-05
Queer Rhymes and Jingles Sung to
Genuinely Musical Airs.

Rev. Hanford A. Edison, in the Independent.
Scientists find much TO interest them in these
high latitudes. Flora and fauna are individual
himself is unique. His physique. his dialect. his
his ENVIRONMENT. A. native American. hidden
among his hills he has cared nothing for Ger
ing from them. At every turn. however. he
shows how much he has got from his British
negro slavery has also made manifest impress
sions When he is musical, as he is very apt to
ment. has a character all its own. The noun
nor ssr meanse It is Like eVery
thing else that has life. it has grown.
without window. one cannot avoid a start of
surprise when barefooted maiden. wholly inno-
ton. good old English ballad Barbara Allen
IT. is heard ' The anaa as
both preserved and modified:
Sweet William died for me to-day;
I'll die for him to-morrer.
Sweet William died of pure. true love;
Barbra Allen died of sorrer.
go dig his grave in the ole churchyard-
Barbro Aliens close by the side of it.
An out of his breast there sprung green brier.
red rose out of Barbra Aliens.
They grew an grew to the ole church top.
Till they couldn't grow no higher;
An they lived an died together
Another favorite ballad is Fair Annie of
Lochroyan:'
20 wha will shoe my fair foot.
And VIVA VIII glove my nan
And wha will lace my middle limp
WI q new-made London ban?
your father'n shoe your fair foot.
Your mother glove your han
Your sister lace your middle imp
WI new-made London ban.
80 gin had bonny ship.
It's wad gang TO my true love,
Sin he Wilma come to me-
The ORIGINAL fair Anne was as thinking kim b Of ships
hoc ada ifcc IN
''But who will shoe your feet?
An WI who viii l,s glove yen your rbT han ttIe Inns
When I am gone?
"oh pappy'Il shoe my feet.
An Won mn as s TT r my han Inns
When you come back:
ON I'll build RSn bi me m a SSfFlSk
Where the wild geese won't bother me
Or hear my sad cries.
The African element in the mountain songs
is evident and often predominant Not the slight
people is ever allowed. even at corn shuckings
or funerals, but the patient cheerful music
and his religion into the air. We hear him in
Apple jack
"Isaccoon an the possum
PPssu neal can out Ut S5, fair fight
And in Coin Downtown:
"Marsa had big white house
Sixteen stories high.
An every story in that house
Was full o. chicken pie"
Or in ''Sour-wood Mountain
Ny little gals in sour-wood mountain.
My little gais in sour-wood mountain.
Ho. ly, dolly. da!'
Or in
'Roun' town gals is you comm out tonight
To dance by de light o. de moon?'
1t is impossible to transfer TO paper the spell
The favorite instrument is the banner" Men
will travel many miles up the steep trails lust
5aIsr that cost hm yty do nten DOWN IN the
and it is wonderful what a sounding board can
be produced with scarcely any tool besides a
fiddle get when enthusiasm and devotion are at
high tide: and many an old-timer has experienced
that the question as to real identity becomes a
these born musicians: and sometimes their tech
mic is surprising One famous performer, though
younger and spryer, could play tune for every
day in the year" and with great skin too. The
Minor strains prevail Likes
o little Liza Jane: Sa-'
She ps' died don on the RSss train ain
when the birds are singn' sweet in the mornin'.
When the myrtle an the Ivy are in bloom.
An the sun Ger the hill-tops is a-dawnin'.
1t then laid her in the tomb
The thoughts are often trivial, coarse.
ne and perbaps monoon noS But basTe
a Thomas orchestra or Mendelssohn quintet club
were once EuHlitted TO a real musical event here
in the North Carolina mountains they would all
be clapping and shouting admiration with the
rest of before hour had gone by After a
ten-hours' day Of chimney building, Webb Cable
Is sometimes induced to come into the hotel par
Tor with his lie. Mountain men and women |
suffered to stand about the DOORS without much
delay enter into the spirit OF the occasion The |
guests with amusing celebrity pass through the
stages of stony indifference druwsy curiosity |
awakened amusement. keen interest and raptur- |
Gus admiration. Finally the fiddler himself wakes
up. When he jerks off his high boots pounces |
again upon his weil-worn instrument and In per- |
feet abandon dances. hdGes and sings at once |
his triumph is complete Encores are likely 10 !
be most boisterous for ''cindy." Liza Jane and /
tsDaisy."
Cloudland. N c.