Mama Pass the Corn Bread

DESCRIPTION: "Mama pass the corn bread, Papa pass the coon, Baby's little belly growls About a(n) empty spoon."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1971 (NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal)
KEYWORDS: food mother father
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, Joseph D. Clarke, "Burke Davis as Folklorist," Vol. XIX, No. 2 (Mar 1971), p. 63, "(Folk Song)" (5 stanzas, probably representing multiple songs, beginning "Mamma pass the corn bread," "Chicken in the bread tray," "Oh, Nellie had a pair of shoes," "Ye living men come view the ground," "Eat the meat, gnaw the bone,"; the second is from "Granny Will Your Dog Bite?"; we file the first as "Mama Pass the Corn Bread" and the third as "Barefoot Nellie"; the last two are too short to file)
File: NCF192MP

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