Kissing Song (I)

DESCRIPTION: The loving young man "hangs all around the cabin door," kissing the girl "for (his/her) mother and her sister and her brother Till her Daddy comes...." Daddy threatens to shoot him; the girl objects. They continue courting much to the old folks' delight
AUTHOR: see NOTES
EARLIEST DATE: 1883 (Pat Rooney's Mulcahy the Dude Songster)
KEYWORDS: love courting father family
FOUND IN: US(Ap,MW,Ro,So) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (8 citations):
Randolph 374, "A Young Man's Love" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen-OzarkFolksongs-Abridged, pp. 305-307, "A Young Man's Love" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 374C)
Peters-FolkSongsOutOfWisconsin, pp. 160-161, "Everybody's Got a Finger in the Pie" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hubbard-BalladsAndSongsFromUtah, #86, When a Fellow Falls in Love" (1 text, 1 tune)
Thomas-DevilsDitties, pp. 140-142, "The Kissing Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
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ADDITIONAL: (Pat Rooney), _Pat Rooney's Mulcahy the Dude Songster_, (Philadelphia:) The American Publishing Company, 1883 (available in the Robert Winslow Gordon Songster collection at the Library of Congress), p. 50, "Parody on Love" (1 text)
Lewis Winfield Moody, "Everybody's Got a Finger in the Pie" (7/21/1941). University of Wisconsin Digital Collections https://asset.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/PGZ2EBD5DZFZD8J/R/file-0dd4a.pdf#page=1, accessed 7/15/2023 [pdf available with text and tune]
Roud #3642
RECORDINGS:
Chubby Parker, "The Kissing Song" (Conqueror 7891, 1931)
Thomas Williams, "Turtle Dove" (on MUNFLA-Leach)
NOTES [85 words]: According to Cohen, this song was copyrighted by Billy Carter in 1882 as "Kissing on the Sly." The date, at least, is about right, basedon its appearance in Pat Rooney's Mulcahy the Dude Songster, though I can't myself verify that authorship.
This should not be confused with another "Kissing on the Sly" song, by G. H. Marsden and H. Watkins, which begins "His manly whiskers swept her cheek, She uttered no reply"; this is found in Scott-EnglishSongBook, pp. 130-131, but shows no sign of being traditional. - RBW
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File: R374

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