Anna Maria Jones

DESCRIPTION: "Ye colored people assembled here, Go hide your 'minished heads, I'se got the prettiest yaller gal...." "Anna Maria, Anna Maria, Anna Maria Jones, Queen of the 'cordian, tamborine." She sings, she dances.. and she loves the singer, so stay away
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1867 (MeetMeInTheLaneSongster)
KEYWORDS: love courting music warning
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
MeetMeInTheLaneSongster, pp, 67-68, "Anna Maria Jones" (1 text)
xBryants-Put-Me-In-My-Little-Bed-Songster, p. 59, "Annie Maria Jones" (1 text)
Roud #30714
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "She's All My Fancy Painted Her," i.e., probably, "Alice Gray" (tune, according to MeetMeInTheLaneSongster)
NOTES [30 words]: I haven't seen an authorship claim for this, but it was sung by Buckley's Serenaders, and probably by Sam Cowell, so odds are that either Sam Cowell or R. Bishop Buckley wrote it. - RBW
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File: MMLS067

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