Rig-a-Jig

DESCRIPTION: "Rig-a-jij-jig and away we go, Away we go, Away we go; RIg-a-jig-jig and away we go. Heigh-ho, hiehg-ho, heigh-ho." Remaining lyrics may be repetitions of these words or may say that the singer met a pretty girl in the street
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1962 (Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5)
KEYWORDS: playparty nonballad
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5, pp. 528-529, "RIg-a-Jig" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Heart-Songs, p. 343, "Rig-a-jig" (1 text)
Rodeheaver-SociabilitySongs, p. 44, "Rig-A-Jig" (1 text, 1 tune)
Zander/Klusmann-CampSongsNThings, p. 54, "Rig-a-jig jig" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Buffalo Gals" (lyrics)
NOTES [70 words]: As Schinhan notes, some versions of "Buffalo Gals" contain some of these lyrics; this piece may be related, but the form looks different. In the absence of a longer text than Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5's, I am forced to split it.
The Heart-Songs version, found also in Rodeheaver-SociabilitySongs, has verses about meeting a pretty girl who is a weaver's maid. This looks like something else again. - RBW
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File: BrS5528

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