Buffalo Boy

DESCRIPTION: The girl asks the Buffalo Boy when they will wed. He suggests soon. (Assorted stanzas follow.) She asks who he will bring to the wedding. He suggests his children. She didn't know he had children. When assured he does, she calls off the wedding
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1927 (recording, Mr. & Mrs. Ernest V. Stoneman)
KEYWORDS: courting wedding children rejection humorous
FOUND IN: US(MA,Ap)
REFERENCES (6 citations):
Jones-MinstrelOfTheAppalachians-Bascom-Lamar-Lunsford, p. 239, "My Dear Old Innocent Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FolkSongsOfNorthAmerica 162, "Buffalo Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Burton/Manning-EastTennesseeStateCollectionVol2, p. 75, "Dear Old Ages Boy" (1 text, 1 tune, with two "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" verses added at the end)
Cray-AshGrove, p. 36, "Buffalo Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 345, "Buffalo Boy" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: MacEdward Leach and Henry Glassie, _A Guide for Collectiors of Oral Traditions and Folk Cultural Material in Pennsylvania_, Pennsylvania historical and Museum Commission, 1973, pp. 35-36, "A Mountaineer's Courtship" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #313
RECORDINGS:
Mr. & Mrs. Ernest V. Stoneman, "The Mountaineer's Courtship" (OKeh 45125, 1927; on AAFM3) (Victor 20880, 1927)
The Hillbillies, "Mountaineer's Courtship" (Vocalion 5115, c. 1927)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Country Courtship" (theme)
NOTES [31 words]: Kennedy considers this to be a version of "The Country Courtship," and the forms, and even the verses, are similar. Roud lumps them. However, this version has a different punch line. - RBW
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File: LoF162

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