Kidder Cole

DESCRIPTION: Singer meets Kidder Cole at a dance, wants to dance but she dances with Charlie Wright. He goes to another dance; she still won't dance (because he's drunk). He visits her; she cold-shoulders him; he vows he'll dance with her yet, and praises her beauty
AUTHOR: Felix Eugene Ally?
EARLIEST DATE: 1928 (recording, Bascom Lamar Lunsford)
KEYWORDS: jealousy courting love beauty dancing drink
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lunsford/Stringfield-30And1FolkSongsFromSouthernMountains, pp. 48-49, "Kidder Cole" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9131
RECORDINGS:
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Kidder Cole" (Brunswick 230, 1928; on Cornshuckers1)
NOTES [27 words]: According to Lunsford/Stringfield-30And1FolkSongsFromSouthernMountains, this is about real people, and Kidder Cole and Felix Alley were both still alive in 1929. - RBW
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