Yonder Comes a Yellow Gal

DESCRIPTION: "Yonder comes a (yellow/yaller) gal, All dressed up in red, Well, I wish my wife was dead, Well, I wish my wife was dead!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1922 (Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5)
KEYWORDS: clothes wife death
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 754, "Yonder Come a Yaller Gal" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Sandburg-TheAmericanSongbag, pp. 312-313, "The Roving Gambler" (3 texts, 1 tune. The "A" and "C" texts are "The Roving Gambler (The Gambling Man)" [Laws H4]; the "B" text is mostly floating verses, including this one)
File: BrS5754

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