Sweet Mamie Chadman

DESCRIPTION: "Sweet Mamie Chadman, that's the girl I love, She's got hair like her mother and teeth like a lightning bug." The police arrest him and take him before a judge. The judge give him 99 years. "I want to see my baby one more time 'fore I die."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1968 (NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal)
KEYWORDS: love prison trial
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, Portia Naomi Crawford, "A Study of Negro Folk Songs from Greensboro, North Carolina and Surrounding Towns," Vol. XVI, No. 2 (Oct 1968), pp. 128-130, "Sweet Mamie Chadman" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES [47 words]: Most of this appears to be a fairly generic prison/chain gang song, although it's hard to tell which one, but the opening is different, so I've filed it as a separate song. I wonder about the form -- it's given in ballad stanzas, but it really feels like it ought to be a blues. - RBW
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File: NCF162MC

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