Dance Josey

DESCRIPTION: "Chicken on the fence post, can't dance Josey (3x) Hello Susan Brown." "Choose your partner come dance Josey ... Chew my gum ... Shoestring's broke ... Hold my mule ... Crank my Ford ... Hair in the butter ... Brier in my heel ... Stumped my tope ..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1976 (Owens-TexasFolkSongs-2ed)
KEYWORDS: dancing nonballad playparty
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Owens-TexasFolkSongs-2ed, pp. 156-157, "Dance Josey" (1 text, 1 tune)
Abernethy-SinginTexas, pp. 98-99, "Saro Jane" (1 text, 1 tune, which despite the title is closer to this song than anything else)
Roud #735
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Coffee Grows (Four in the Middle)" (floating lyrics)
NOTES [45 words]: Most of the material in Abernethy-SinginTexas's version of this, at least, derives from "Coffee Grows (Four in the Middle)"; it appears to be an expansion of that game. Abernethy-SinginTexas says both are ring games played at a "Josey party." Roud appears to lump them. - RBW
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File: Ow2E156

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