Yonder Comes My Love

DESCRIPTION: "Yonder comes my purty little love, How do you reckon I know? Know her by her old cotton dress...." "Yonder comes...all dressed in yaller...Her shoes all greased with taller...." "...dressed in red...she wished my wife was dead." "Went up on the mountain"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1954 (Roberts-SangBranchSettlers)
KEYWORDS: clothes love beauty wife humorous courting
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Roberts-SangBranchSettlers, #77, "Yonder Comes My Love" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3431
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Diamond Joe (II)" (lyrics)
cf. "Yonder Comes a Georgia Girl" (theme)
NOTES [33 words]: An ambitious lumper could probably find something to lump this with, e.g. "Diamond Joe (II)" or "Cindy (I)." But it has minor similarities to so many songs that I decided it had to file on its own. - RBW
Last updated in version 4.2
File: Robe077

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