Over in the Meadow

DESCRIPTION: Counting song. "Over in the meadow, in the sand, in the sun, Lived an old mother toad and her little toadie one. 'Wink,' said the mother. 'I wink," said the one. So she winked and she blinked...." Repeat with other animals in higher numbers.
AUTHOR: Katherine Floyd Dana ("Olive A. Wadsworth") (1835-1886)
EARLIEST DATE: 1916 (Gentry/Smith-ASingerAmongSingers)
KEYWORDS: animal bird bug
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Gentry/Smith-ASingerAmongSingers, #69, "Sing Said the Mother (Over in the Meadow)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Brown-MyGrandmothersSongbook 12, "Over in the Meadow" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #12681
NOTES [87 words]: Widely sung as an "old folk song" (I heard it somewhere when I was young -- Ed McCurdy, perhaps?), field collections are very rare. I have not seen an actual book by Katherine Floyd Dana which contained the text, but several sources agree on the attribution: Brown-MyGrandmothersSongbook, certain web sites, and Granger's Index to Poetry (which however gives the name as OLIVER A. Wadsworth rather than OLIVE A. Wadsworth.) It seems to be the only one of Dana/Wadsworth's works to have achieved any lasting currency. - RBW
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