Kansas Jayhawker Song

DESCRIPTION: "I'm a Jayhawker girl from a Jayhawker state, I wear Jayhawker flowers with Jayhawker grace." "For the Jayhawker girls and the Jayhawker boys All find a warm heart in the old home tonight." The Jayhawkers love their home despite its bad weather
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1957 (Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore); said to have been in existence in 1898
KEYWORDS: home clothes farming
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, pp. 142-143, "Kansas Jayhawker Song" (1 text, tune referenced)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 450-451, "Kansas Jayhawker" (1 text, 1 tune)

Roud #4898
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "There'll Be a Hot Time (In the Old Town Tonight)" (tune) and references there
File: SaKo142

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