Meet Half Way (Miss Liking)

DESCRIPTION: ""Meet half way to your best like-'em/likeness (x3), You're the one my darling." (Or, "Won't you be my partner?") "Right hand round your best like-'em." "Five dollars if you touch her." "Trip her up and down as long as you love her."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1937 (Botkin, The American Play-Party Song)
KEYWORDS: playparty courting
FOUND IN: US(MW,Ro)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Spurgeon-WaltzTheHall-AmericanPlayParty, pp. 137-138, "Meet Hal Way with Your Best Likeness" (1 text, 1 tune, with the verses being from "Meet Half Way (Miss Liking)" but the chorus being "Ten Little Indians (John Brown Had a Little Indian)")
Lewis-FavoriteMichiganFolkSongs, p. 34, "Miss Liking" (1 text, tune referenced)
Roud #7923
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Old Brass Wagon" (tune)
File: Spurg137

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