Rondo for Sledging

DESCRIPTION: "For we're shy, single, disengaged, free as the stars above, Yes, we're shy.... looking for someone to love. There be rabbits in the mountains, shepherds in the hills, But red-headed Kitty sets the pace that kills, So we're shy, single... ."
AUTHOR: based on a piece by Charles Jefferson Tyus and Effie Tyus
EARLIEST DATE: 1989 (Kinsey-SongsOfTheSea)
KEYWORDS: love nonballad
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kinsey-SongsOfTheSea, p. 140, "Rondo for Sledging" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #8342
NOTES [77 words]: This appears to be a fragment of a 1921 foxtrot (with I think some ragtime influence), "I'm Free, Single, Disengaged Looking for Someone to Love," with words by Charles Jefferson Tyus and music by Effie Tyus; it is said to have been recorded by Fred Feild (yes, that is the correct spelling). I will believe that it is traditional when (A) Kinsey reports where he learned it, and (B) someone shows me any other traditional song with the word "disengaged" in it! - RBW
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File: Kins140A

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