I Got a Girl

DESCRIPTION: "I got a girl, she lives in town. She wrote me a letter, she's a comin' down." "Down the road and across the creek, I ain't had a letter since away last week." "I do red she ain't no fool, Tryin' to put a saddle on a hump-backed mule."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: love animal
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 448, " I Got a Girl, "" (1 short text)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 448, "I Got a Girl" (1 tune plus a text excerpt)
Roud #11791
NOTES [21 words]: Almost certainly a fragment of something more detailed -- but I've no idea what. - RBW
Ida Red? Pretty close to "I do red." - PJS
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File: Br3448

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