Cindy (I)

DESCRIPTION: "You ought to see my Cindy, She lives 'way down south, She's so sweet the honeybees Swarm around her mouth. Get along, Cindy, Cindy...." Describes attempts to court Cindy, as well as her occasional extravagances. Many floating verses
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1915
KEYWORDS: love courting playparty religious floatingverses
FOUND IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES (23 citations):
Randolph 564, "Get Along Home, Cindy" (2 texts, 1 tune)
McNeil-SouthernMountainFolksong, pp. 136-139, "Cindy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Arnold-FolkSongsofAlabama, p. 114, "Cindy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 404, "Cindy" (6 texts, mostly short, with the usual load of floating verses; some may be other songs with this chorus tacked on); also 163, "The Raccoon Has a Bushy Tail" (1 text plus 2 fragments; the "C" text has the chorus of "Cindy")
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 404, "Cindy" (3 tunes plus text excerpts)
Lunsford/Stringfield-30And1FolkSongsFromSouthernMountains, pp. 42-43, "Cindy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Jones-MinstrelOfTheAppalachians-Bascom-Lamar-Lunsford, pp. 230-231, "Cindy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Thomas/Leeder-SinginGatherin, p. 20, "Cindy" (1 short text, 1 tune, though it speaks of "Big Sandy" and not of "Cindy"; the text might be from another source)
Rosenbaum-FolkVisionsAndVoices, pp. 12-13, "Cindy in the Summertime" (1 text, 1 tune plus a mouthbow arrangement)
Gainer-FolkSongsFromTheWestVirginiaHills, pp. 178-179, "Cindy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Bush-FSofCentralWestVirginiaVol4, pp. 24-26, "Cindy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fuson-BalladsOfTheKentuckyHighlands, p. 172, "Liza Jane" (1 text, probably a version of "Po' Liza Jane" but with a "Cindy...Cindy Jane" chorus)
Roberts-SangBranchSettlers, #70, "Cindy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roberts/Agey-InThePine #129, "Shoo Fly (Cindy)" (1 text, 1 tune, which Roberts considers to be "Cindy" but which starts with the "Mass had a yeller gal" verses of "Don't Get Weary Children (Massa Had a Yellow Gal)" and has other floating verses)
Abernethy-SinginTexas, p. 65, "Cindy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax/Lomax-FolkSongUSA 28, "Cindy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax- FSNA 119, "Cindy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-TreasuryOfAmericanFolklore, pp. 899-900, "Cindy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Coleman/Bregman-SongsOfAmericanFolks, pp. 52-53, "Cindy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Seeger-AmericanFavoriteBallads, p. 61, "Cindy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 35, "Cindy" (1 text)
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 276, "Cindy" (notes only)
DT, CIND
Roud #836
RECORDINGS:
Gene Austin, "Cindy" (c. 1927; on CrowTold01) (Victor 20873 [as by Bill Collins], 1927; this may be the same recording as the preceding)
Milton Brown & his Musical Brownies, "Get Along, Cindy" (Bluebird B-5654/Montgomery Ward M-4536, 1934)
Samantha Bumgarner & Eva Davis, "Cindy in the Meadows" (Columbia 167-D, 1924; Harmony 5097-H, n.d.; Diva 6010-G/Velvet Tone 7056-V, 1930)
W. E. Claunch, "Cindy" (AFS, 1939; on LC02)
Vernon Dalhart, "Cindy" (Challenge 405, c. 1928)
Lawrence & Vaughan Eller, "Cindy in the Summertime" (on FolkVisions1)
Ford & Grace, "Kiss Me Cindy" (OKeh 45157, 1927; on CrowTold02)
Ernest Hare & Al Bernard, "Cindy" (OKeh 40011, 1924; rec. 1923)
Hill Billies, "Old Time Cinda" (OKeh 40294, 1925); "Cinda" (Vocalion 5025/Brunswick 105 [as Al Hopkins & his Buckle Busters], 1927)
Bradley Kincaid, "Cindy" (Champion 15851 [as Dan Hughey]/Supertone 9568, 1929) (Brunswick 464, 1930)
Bob Livingston, Derek Piotr, "Cindy" (Fragment: Piotr-Archive #246, recorded 09/11/2022, with most of the lyrics supplied by Piotr)
Lulu Belle & Scotty "Get Along Home Cindy" (Conqueror 8594, 1935; Melotone 6-03-59, 1936; Vocalion 05487, 1940)
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Get Along Home, Cindy" (Brunswick 228, 1928)
J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers "Kiss Me Cindy" ((Bluebird B-7289, 1937; on GoodForWhatAilsYou)
Shorty McCoy "Cindy" (Bluebird 33-0511, 1944)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Cindy" (on NLCR04)
Pickard Family, "Cindy" (Coast 253, n.d.)
Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers, "Get Along Home, Miss Cindy" (Victor 21577, 1928)
Poplin Family, "Cindy Gal" (on Poplin01)
Frank Proffitt, "Cindy" (on Proffitt03)
Riley Puckett (w. Clayton McMichen), "Cindy" (Columbia 15232-D, 1928; rec. 1927)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Jinny Go Round and Around" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Whoop 'Em Up, Cindy"
cf. "Liza Jane" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Get On Board, Little Children" (tune)
cf. "I Met a Handsome Lady" (lyrics)
cf. "Turn, Julie-Ann, Turn" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Early Monday Morning" (floating lyrics)
File: LxU028

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