Little Alice Summers

DESCRIPTION: "Come all you young parents, I'll sing to you a song Concerning Alice Summers Who was lost so long." Little Alice, not yet two, disappears in the cold. For long hours she is missing, and her family almost despairs. But her tracks are found
AUTHOR: John T. Barton? (source: Barton's great-grandson, Jamie Blackmon)
EARLIEST DATE: 1929 (recording, Arkansas Charlie)
KEYWORDS: family children rescue
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Randolph 727, "Little Alice Summers" (1 text)
Roud #7391
RECORDINGS:
Arkansas Charlie [pseud. for Charlie Craver], "Little Alice Summers" (Vocalion 5367, c. 1929)
File: R727

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