Georgia Creek

DESCRIPTION: "Georgia's creek where I forsake, To the red stone hills I came; I fell in love with a pretty little girl...." The two ride together to Charleston, but pray to escape the town. They look forward to returning to the hills where she will keep bees
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1929 (Henry, collected from Austin Harmon)
KEYWORDS: courting travel return bug
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Henry-SongsSungInTheSouthernAppalachians, pp. 35-36, "Georgia Creek" (1 text)
File: MHAp035

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