Once a Possum Hung A-swinging

DESCRIPTION: "Once a possum hung a-swinging with his tail around a limb, Ad a jaybird stopped his singing just to take a look at him," leading a buzzard to sing, "Carolina, Carolina, with the corn and cane, I'se a-coming"; the singer talks of life there
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1894 (Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania)
KEYWORDS: nonsense travel animal bird home
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, pp. 57-58, "(no title, said to be 'Sung by a Homesick Southern Darkey Swamper'") (1 text) (pp. 47-48 in the 1919 edition)
Roud #14093
NOTES [22 words]: Despite Shoemaker's attribution of this to a "Homesick Southern Darkey Swamper," I strongly suspect this of minstrel show origin. - RBW
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