Hog Drovers

DESCRIPTION: Playparty. "Hog drovers (x3) we air, A-courtin' your daughter so handsome and fair. Kin we get a largin' here?" The father turns them down. Others (gold miners, cowboys, etc.) ask for her hand. Most are rejected; one (a farmer?) may be acceptable
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1898 (Gomme)
KEYWORDS: courting playparty rejection father children
FOUND IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES (12 citations):
Randolph 555, "Hog Rovers" (1 text, 1 tune)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5, pp. 517-520, "Hog Drovers" (4 texts, 4 tunes)
Hudson-FolksongsOfMississippi 148, pp. 296-297, "Hog Drovers" (1 text)
Hudson-FolkTunesFromMississippi 31, "Hog Drovers" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Owens-TexasFolkSongs-2ed, pp. 155-156, "Hog-Drovers" (1 text, 1 tune)
Abernethy-SinginTexas, p. 94, "Hog Drovers" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spurgeon-WaltzTheHall-AmericanPlayParty, pp. 98-99, "Five Tinkers" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FolkSongsOfNorthAmerica 207, "Hog Drovers" (1 text, 1 tune)
Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame pp. 111-113, "(Hog-drivers, hog-drivers, hog-drivers we air)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Newell-GamesAndSongsOfAmericanChildren, #164, "Swine-herders" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Botkin-TreasuryOfAmericanFolklore, pp. 810-812, "Swine-Herders (Hog Drovers)" (1 text, 1 tune)
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, Julian Mason, "Owen Wister: Observer in North Carolina," Vol. XX, No. 4 (Nov 1972), pp. 165-166, "Hog Drovers" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST LoF207 (Full)
Roud #3596
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Three Dukes" (plot, lyrics)
NOTES [13 words]: Randolph reports that this is based on the Irish game "The Nine Daughters." - RBW
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File: LoF207

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