Put on the Silver Slippers

DESCRIPTION: Every other line is "Put on the silver slippers." Verses include floater "my old mistress promised me ... when she died she'd set me free ...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1942 (Parrish-SlaveSongsOfTheGeorgiaSeaIslands)
KEYWORDS: nonballad playparty floatingverses
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Parrish-SlaveSongsOfTheGeorgiaSeaIslands, p. 118, ("I do I do I tries to do") (1 text)
File: Paap118

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