Cuckoo Waltz

DESCRIPTION: "Three times round the Cuckoo Waltz (x3), Lovely Susie Brown. Fare thee well, my charming girl, Fare thee well I'm gone, Fare the well, my charming girl, With golden slippers on." "Choose your pard as we go round, We'll all take Susie Brown...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1916 (Wolford-ThePlayPartyInIndiana)
KEYWORDS: playparty nonballad
FOUND IN: US(Ap,MW)
REFERENCES (6 citations):
Wolford-ThePlayPartyInIndiana, pp. 36=37=Wolford/Richmond/Tillson-PlayPartyInIndiana, pp. 169-171, "Cuckoo Waltz" (1 text, 1 tune)
McIntosh-FolkSongsAndSingingGamesofIllinoisOzarks, pp. 64-65, "Susan Brown" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sandburg-TheAmericanSongbag, p. 160, "Cuckoo Waltz" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Cambiaire-EastTennesseeWestVirginiaMountainBallads, p. 136, "Susie Brown" (1 text, a mixed text which has two verses typical of "Cuckoo Waltz" or something like it and two from "Go In and Out the Window")
Spurgeon-WaltzTheHall-AmericanPlayParty, p. 101, "Four Hands Round in the Euchre Ring" (1 text, 1 tune, hard to identify but it looks more like this than anything else); pp. 184-185, "Susan Brown" (1 text, 1 tune)

ST San160 (Full)
Roud #7893
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Old Joe Clark" (floating lyrics)
NOTES [19 words]: There was a 1948 pop song called "Cuckoo Waltz." I suppose it may have been based on this, but it isn't this. - RBW
Last updated in version 6.5
File: San160

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