West Fork Girls

DESCRIPTION: "Lay around in the summer time, Stored up all my gold, Lay around in the winter time, Jesus, ain't it cold." Many floating verse: "Apples in the summer time," "Higher up the cherry tree." "You can talk to your sweetheart But you leave mine alone."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1978 (Bush-FSofCentralWestVirginiaVol5)
KEYWORDS: love courting floatingverses
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Bush-FSofCentralWestVirginiaVol5, pp. 52-53, "West Fork Girls" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #7056
NOTES [39 words]: This feels to me like a derivative of something else, perhaps "Cripple Creek" or "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss." And half of it is floating verses. But there is just enough independent content that I can't file it with anything else.
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File: BWV5052

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