Brown Jug, The (Bounce Around)

DESCRIPTION: "I (took/sent) my brown jug down to town (x3) So early in the morning (or "Tra de al de ay," etc.)." "It came back with a bounce around (or "all flounced around")...." "Just us four to bounce around...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1911 (JAFL24, according to Spurgeon-WaltzTheHall-AmericanPlayParty)
KEYWORDS: playparty nonballad
FOUND IN: US(Ro,So)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Randolph 534, "The Brown Jug" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Spurgeon-WaltzTheHall-AmericanPlayParty, p. 83, "Bounce Around" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest, p. 427, "Bounce Around" (1 text)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 387, "I Sent My Brown Jug Downtown" (1 text, with some verses apparently from "Coffee Grows (Four in the Middle)")
Roud #7644
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Play Party" (on PeteSeeger07, PeteSeeger07b) (on PeteSeeger22)
NOTES [21 words]: Roud lumps the Ames/Spurgeon-WaltzTheHall-AmericanPlayParty "Bounce Around" text with "Skip to my Lou," but I don't see it. - RBW
Last updated in version 6.6
File: R534

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