Goat Hill

DESCRIPTION: "They had a cattle show On Goat Hill, on Goat Hill, They had a cattle show And I did like to go, For nodding but girls dey show." The singer complains that the girls are fat but still says he kissed Fanny Reed, Katie Tweed, and all the others
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1900 (Shoemaker)
KEYWORDS: humorous courting | kissing
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, "Goat Hill" (1 text) (p. 156 in the 1919 edition; not found in the third edition)
Roud #14081
NOTES [24 words]: I assume this was sung to "Sam Hall"/"Captain Kidd," but Shoemaker doesn't say so. It was happily dropped from later editions of his work. - RBW
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File: SMMP156X

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