Talk:Cotton-Eyed Joe

message: *Eighteen, nineteen, twenty years ago
*. . . run away with Cotton Eye Joe
*Had not a-been for Cotton Eye Joe,
*I'd been married a long time ago
*Hold my fiddle and a-hold my bow
*Gonna beat the devil out of Cotton Eye Joe
--68.207.206.69 08:35, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lyrics

message: I would like to note that a public domain version of this song is available on Wikipedia Commons, and can be added to this article. See . --Blu Aardvark | (talk) | (contribs) 13:45, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
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message: Cotton Eye Joe is not on the soundtrack of this film. . Cotton Eye Joe is a "pattern partner dance" which can be danced solo. More to come. Steve Pastor 19:25, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Urban Cowboy

message: Just wanted to note that I removed the text regarding the media link not working, as it seemed more appropriate for a talk page -- or edit.  As a side note, the 'play in brower' link worked just fine for me so I can't verify whether there's a problem or not.  Adiay 04:41, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Media file link 

message: A whole hell of a lot of secondary sources from the early twentieth century claim the song is antebellum, but the earliest reference to it that I'm aware of is from 1875 when it was apparently mentioned in the Saturday Evening Post. Clearly it's old enough that people would have gotten the reference then, but can anyone prove it predates the War Between the States?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Teucer (talk • contribs) 17:23, August 25, 2007 (UTC) 
"Proof" is not required. What is required is a verifiable reference to an acceptable source. So a reference pointing to "Abstracts from the Canadian Society for Traditional Music Conference 2002", the listed reference for the age of the song isn't good enough? I suppose you could track down the entire article (which probably has a list of references itself), but if isn't available to the public, such as in Jstor, it wouldn't be much good as verifiable. Maybe you could contact "Folklorist Dorothy Scarborough"? If you do pursue this, please let us know what you find. Steve Pastor 22:57, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age 

message: "They changed some of the formations from couple to spoke-lines and altered the steps to fit, so that lines made up of happy single dancers could link arms around each other's waists and prance or glide happily around the hall."
There is no evidence to support that any of the dancers involved were happy.  Many might have been quite miserable.   It's possible that they didn't prance so much as glide their way through the hall.  Many of them may have been stompers.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.239.169.45 (talk) 06:42, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible POV 

message: Here, for purposes of documentation is rollback material. "taking a "cotton to", or liking to, many ladies (thus the singer saying he would have been married a long time ago) " Problem is, this site doesn't even suppose it's own premise about "cotton to", since it isn't in the lyrics of the song that is "cited". And even if it was, we are talking about a text from 1951, and lyrics from a song sung at Gilley's? Anyone can make up lyrics, but they don't belong in something that is putting the song in context historically.I have also been unable to find the Isaac Payton Sweat lyrics. It would be appropriate to list his version in an "additional versions" section Steve Pastor (talk) 20:19, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: material from Phantom Ranch site

message: What is the title? The very beginning of this article says "Cotton Eyed Joe" while the very next paragraph starts with "Cotton Eye Joe"...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.185.250.81 (talk) 00:33, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title 

message: Until I track this down - anyone can do it - I'm going to put text back as referenced before I was away for a month. Edits were made without much justification, far as I can see froma cursury look. The Fiddle Book (New York: Oak Publications, 1967). Marion Thede Collection, Research Division, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Steve Pastor (talk) 00:09, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: possible meanings of cotton eye

message: Recently I went to a Celtic festival here in Austin, Texas.  There was a demonstration of Scottish dancing and the announcer said that the "Cotton Eyed Joe" originally came from Scotland (as something else).  Does anyone know if this is true or not?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gaorr (talk • contribs) 22:58, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins of "Cotton Eyed Joe" 

message: This music is currently playing on /b/. On that note, the song, and therefore this article, are under a higher chance of being attacked. Please can we get some more protection in on this article?--Graythos1 (talk) 14:18, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Scratch that, it's gone.--Graythos1 (talk) 00:55, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poss. Vandalism 

message: It may be worth mentioning that the Rednex version is played on maybe 80% of all Romanian weddings. Not sure how to get a quotation of this though.
78.96.192.108 (talk) 07:42, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Romania 

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thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: Per WP:NSONGS Richhoncho (talk) 11:39, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Cotton Eye Joe (Rednex song)]] 

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message: what about the meme gedagedigedagedo
it was based off of this song DoraTheMora (talk) 20:13, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  what if