Sucking Cider through a Straw

DESCRIPTION: "The prettiest girl that I ever saw Was sucking cider through a straw." "I told that gal I didn't see how She sucked the cider through a straw." "And now I've got me a mother-in-law From sucking cider through a straw."
AUTHOR: credited in the 1919 publication to Carey Morgan and Lee David
EARLIEST DATE: 1919 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: courting drink
FOUND IN: US(Ap,MW,SE)
REFERENCES (6 citations):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 47, "Sucking Cider through a Straw" (1 fragment)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 47, "Sucking CIder through a Straw" (1 tune, plus text not found in the Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 version)
Sandburg-TheAmericanSongbag, p. 329, "Sucking Cider Through a Straw" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 239, "Sipping Cider Through A Straw" (1 text)
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, pp. 175, 235, 240, 289, 311, 322-324, "Sippin' Cider" (notes, with a fragment on p. 323)
DT, SIPCIDER*
Roud #7867
RECORDINGS:
[Arthur] Collins & [Byron] Harlan, "Sipping Cider Through a Straw" (Pathe 22157, 1919) (Edison 50627, 1920) (CYL: Edison [BA] 3846, n.d.)
Vernon Dalhart, "Sippin' Cider" (Columbia 1712-D, 1929)
SAME TUNE:
The Other Day I Met a Bear (File: ACSF318O)
NOTES [95 words]: The 1919 publication gives the name as "Sipping Cider thru' a Straw." Curiously, Sandburg-TheAmericanSongbag, writing no later than 1927, did not seem to know of this -- implying that this was originally "folk" rather than pop.
Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 326, estimates that this was the forty-third most popular song in America in 1919, peaking at #8 in October 1919 (#1 for the year being Raymond B. Egan and Richard A. Whiting's "Till We Meet Again"). - RBW
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