Whippoorwill (II)

DESCRIPTION: "Gone to bed is the setting sun, Night is coming and day is done, Whippoorwill, whippoorwill, has just begun."
AUTHOR: Anne Hopson Chapin (1891-1979) (source: Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs)
EARLIEST DATE: 1921 (date of composition, according to ChansonsDeNotreChalet)
KEYWORDS: bird nonballad campsong
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REFERENCES (4 citations):
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 438, 445, "Whippoorwill" (notes only)
ChansonsDeNotreChalet, p. 68, "Whippoorwill" (1 text, 1 tune)
National-4HClubSongBook, p. 11, "Whip-Poor-Will" (1 text, 1 tune)
SongsOfManyNations, ""Whippoorwill (1 text, 1 tune) (CC edition, p. 17) (12th edition, p. 31)
NOTES [26 words]: Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs says that this is in Janet E. Tobitt's The Ditty Bag, an important source of scouting songs. But it is not in my 1960 edition. - RBW
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