Wedding Dress Song

DESCRIPTION: "... You'd better be a-making your wedding dress. It's already made, trimmed in (brown, green, white) ... She wouldn't say yes An' wouldn't say no, All she'd do was just set and sew."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1957 (recording, SeegerFamily-AmericanFolkSongs)
KEYWORDS: courting wedding questions clothes nonballad playparty
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Seeger-FolkSongsOfPeggySeeger, p. 80, "The Wedding Dress Song" (1 text, 1 tune0
RECORDINGS:
Peggy Seeger, "Wedding Dress Song" (on SeegerFamily-AmericanFolkSongs)
NOTES [54 words]: Charles Seeger's liner note to SeegerFamily-AmericanFolkSong for this song is only "a fragment from Tennessee." - BS
Peggy Seeger, on the other hand, says that she learned it around a campfire in New York. I'm not sure why Charles Seeger thinks it's from Tennessee, since Peggy's version seems to be the only one known. - RBW
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