Old Doctor Collins (Celie)

DESCRIPTION: "Old Doctor Collins, He's a merry man (x3), Old Doctor Collins, He's a merry man, What makes you treat me so?" "Young ladies all, see that... Come in my ladies' garden." "Sam Jones is bound, Come into...." "Swing your sweetheard, see that, Come into..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1950 (Morris-FolksongsOfFlorida)
KEYWORDS: nonballad playparty dancing gardening
FOUND IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Morris-FolksongsOfFlorida, #124, "Old Doctor Collins" (1 text, 1 tune)
Abernethy-SinginTexas, p. 103, "To London" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11421
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Celie
Sealy
NOTES [83 words]: This is one of those pieces that has no unifying theme and no unifying character; at one end we have Morris-FolksongsOfFlorida's version that is about Doctor Collins; at the far extreme we have Abernethy-SinginTexas's that is about travel to London, with no characters at all except "Celie" ("Sealy," "Celia," "Cecilia"). The extreme versions look like different songs, but there are so many intermediate versions that there is no good way to draw a line. So I've followed Roud in lumping them. - RBW
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File: Morr124

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