Peep Squirrel

DESCRIPTION: Singing game: "Peep squirrel, yang-dan-diddle-um (or other nonsense, e.g. Hop squirrel, eedle-dum-dum)" (x2 or x4). Similarly, "Run, squirrel...." "Catch the old squirrel...." "I give you fifty cents...."
AUTHOR: Squirrel
EARLIEST DATE: 1925 (Scarborough)
KEYWORDS: animal hunting playparty
FOUND IN: US(MW,SE)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Chappell-FolkSongsOfRoanokeAndTheAlbermarle 119, "Peep Squirrel" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
McIntosh-FolkSongsAndSingingGamesofIllinoisOzarks, pp. 91-92, "Peep Squirrel" (1 text, 1 tune)
Scarborough-OnTheTrailOfNegroFolkSongs, pp. 134-136, "Hop, Old Squirrel" (2 texts, the second with interspersed game instructions, 1 tune)
ST ChFRA119 (Partial)
Roud #7645
NOTES [63 words]: Roud lumps this with "Hunt the Squirrel" and similar items -- superficially reasonable, since they're both singing games about squirrels. But they don't have any lyrics in common.
Even I decided ot merge "Hop, Old Squirrel" with "Peep, Squirrel"; the forms are very different, but it appears that lyrics cross so much; my guess is that it's one song with two differen games. - RBW
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File: ChFRA119

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