Gwine 'Round Dis Mountain

DESCRIPTION: "Gwin 'round dis mountain, To geirgia I'm a gwine. Setting by that pretty little gal Broke dis heart o' mine. Car'lina gal can't you remember me... Someday you'll remember me." "Gonna hew dis mountain down, my love... 'Fore the sun goes down."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1924 (Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5)
KEYWORDS: love courting work hardtimes
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 741, "Gwine 'Round Dis Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #16311
NOTES [28 words]: The description is based on the Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 text. Roud lumps this with "Goin' from the Cotton Fields," but I don't see the link. - RBW
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File: BrS5741

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