Jump, Isabel, Slide Water

DESCRIPTION: "Jump, Isabel, slide water, Ho, my aunty, ho; Jump, Isabel, slide water, Ho, my aunty, ho." "'Where's you gwine?' I says to her... She answers back, 'I's gwine to church.'" "I wash my shirts, I neber rench 'um," "We jump in de boat, an' away we go."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1950 (Morris-FolksongsOfFlorida)
KEYWORDS: clothes family travel ship
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Morris-FolksongsOfFlorida, #28, "Jump, Isabel, Slide Water" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #5012
File: Morr028

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