Whip-poor-will

DESCRIPTION: "Whip-poor-will (x4), I know what I say but I can't be still. Whip-poor-will and you came to the woods one day and stole my nestlings away. Don't I know, can't I see, can't I feel...." "Look, look, there's a fly, I swallowed him down."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (Boette-SingaHipsyDoodle)
KEYWORDS: bird bug food
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Boette-SingaHipsyDoodle, p. 115, "Whip-poor-will" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Roud #7445
NOTES [25 words]: Roud lumps this with Randolph's "Whippoorwill," which is also based on the Whip-poor-will's call, but the plot seems different, so I split them. - RBW
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File: Boet115

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