I Wouldn't Leave My Little Wooden Hut for You

DESCRIPTION: "Once on a cannibal isle there dwelt a dark-eyed maid Lived all alone in her little log hut...." "A stranger" arrives and begs her to cross the sea with him. But she " wouldn't leave my little wooden hut for you." When cannibals arrive, he flees
AUTHOR: Tom Mellor and Charles Collins (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: courting rejection cannibalism
FOUND IN: Britain(England(North))
Roud #2542
RECORDINGS:
Jo Elliott, "I Wouldn't Leave My Little Wooden Hut For You" (Piotr-Archive #40, recorded 07/21/2021)
Burt Shepard, "I Wouldn't Leave My Little Wooden Hut for You" (Gramophone Concert Records G.C.-3-2342)
NOTES [20 words]: Apparently first recorded and popularized by Daisy Dormer, but so far I haven't managed to find the record number. - RBW
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