Lolly-Too-Dum

DESCRIPTION: Daughter comes to mother, asking to be married. Mother, after pointing out she's young, asks who she will marry. Daughter says, "Handsome Dan" -- or any of forty more if he's not available. (The daughter marries, and mother looks for a husband herself)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1910 (Belden-BalladsSongsCollectedByMissourFolkloreSociety)
KEYWORDS: marriage loneliness courting mother
FOUND IN: US(Ap,So)
REFERENCES (18 citations):
Belden-BalladsSongsCollectedByMissourFolkloreSociety, p. 266, "Mother and Daughter" (1 text)
Randolph 370, "Rolly Trudum" (2 texts plus an excerpt, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen-OzarkFolksongs-Abridged, pp. 299-300, "Rolly Trudum" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 370A)
Hudson-FolksongsOfMississippi 134, pp.280-281 , "Rolly Trudam" (1 text)
Arnold-FolkSongsofAlabama, p. 78, "Lollie Trudom" (1 text, 1 tune)
Moore/Moore-BalladsAndFolkSongsOfTheSouthwest 189, "Lolly Trudom" (1 text, 1 tune)
Owens-TexasFolkSongs-1ed, pp. 214-216, "Rolly Troodum" (1 text, 1 tune)
Owens-TexasFolkSongs-2ed, pp. 122-123, "Rolly Troodum" (1 text, 1 tune)
Wolfe/Boswell-FolkSongsOfMiddleTennessee 83, pp. 133-134, "Handsome Sam" (1 text, 1 tune)
Bush-FSofCentralWestVirginiaVol4, pp. 81-83, "Lolly-Tu-Dum" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax/Lomax-FolkSongUSA 12, "Lolly-Too-Dum" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax/Lomax-OurSingingCountry, pp. 126-127, "Lolly Too-Dum" (1 text, 1 tune)
Chase-AmericanFolkTalesAndSongs, pp. 138-139, "Lolly Too Dum" (2 texts, 1 tune, but the first is "Whistle, Daughter, Whistle")
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 344, "Lolly-Too-Dum" (1 text)
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, W. Amos Abrams, "Horton Barker: Folk Singer Supreme," Vol. XXII, No. 4 (Nov 1974), p. 149, "Rollie Trudum" (1 text)
SongsOfAllTime, p. 57, "Lolly Too Dum" (1 text, 1 tune)
OneTuneMore, p. 42, "Rolla Trudum" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, LLYTOODM*
Roud #441
RECORDINGS:
Horton Barker, "Rolly Trudum" (on Barker01)
May Kennedy McCord, "Rolly Trudum" (AFS; on LC12)
Pete Seeger, "Lolly Too Dum" (on PeteSeeger32)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "I Must And Will Get Married (The Fit)" (theme)
NOTES [41 words]: This song is named for its chorus, "Lolly-too-dum, lolly-too-dum-day." Thematically, it is identical to "I Must And Will Get Married (The Fit)," but the stanza form is different enough that I have separated them. (Roud, of course, lumps them.) - RBW
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File: LxU012

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