Bobbin' Around

DESCRIPTION: "In August last on one fine day, Bobbin' around, around, around, When Josh and I went to make hay, We went bobbin' around." They have a "private talk" and start kissing. Josh proposes. But she knows he has another girl, and jilts him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1860 (Dime-Song-Book #6)
KEYWORDS: love courting marriage rejection | bridge church leave in lurch kissing
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Newman/Devlin-NeverWithoutASong, p. 210, "Bobbin' Around" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Dime-Song-Book #6, p. 7, "Bobbin' Around" (1 text)
Roud #1389
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.25(6)=Harding B 11(355), "Bobbing Around," J. T. Burdett (London), c. 1855; also Harding B 18(47), "Bobbing around No. 3," J. Andrews (New York), 1857; also Johnson Ballads 1311, "Bobbing Around," C Neesom (London), n.d.; also 2806 c.13(69)=Harding B 11(354), "Bobbing around," J. Harkness (Preston), 1840-1866; also 2806 c.13(274), "Bobbing Around," unknown, n.d. (largely illegible); also 2806 c.18(35), "Bobbing Around" (unknown, n.d.); also 2806 d.31(82)=Firth b.27(160)=Harding B 11(2701)=Johnson Ballads 3365, "Bobbing Around," unknown, n.d.
File: NeDe211

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