Away Down East, Away Down West

DESCRIPTION: "Away down east, away down west, Away down in Alabam, The only girl that I love best, Her name is Susy Anna. I tooker to to a ball one night... The table fell and she fell too And stuck her nose in the butter." She has "Two black eyes and a jelly nose"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1964 (Ritchie, according to Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes)
KEYWORDS: love courting food jumprope | nose butter supper Alabama Panorama
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Bord))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, p. 14, "Away down east, away down west" (1 text)
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 63, "(Susie Anna, Susie Anna)" (1 text)
Roud #8248
NOTES [33 words]: Roud lumps this with "My Father Died A Month Ago," but this obviously has other elements -- which appear, oddly, to be American, even though it seems to be found mostly in Scotland and Ireland. - RBW
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File: AJRR028

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