679. What Makes the Wild Cat Wild?

679. What Makes the Wild Cat Wild?
'What Makes the Wild Cat Wild?' Sung by R. D. Ware from Albemarle,  Stanley county; recorded at Trinity College, Durham, August 3, 1922. N. I.  White notes : "Popular at Trinity College as a campus song. I learned it there  about 1911." For a similar kind of song cf. JAFL xxvi 136.
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What makes the wild cat wild, boys?
What makes the wild cat wild?
What makes the wild cat wild, boys?
What makes the wild cat wild?

I'll ask you gam per - son - al friend
What makes the wild cat wild?

Scale : Mode III, plagal. Tonal Center : f. Structure : aa1aa1bc (2,2,2,2,2,2)  =: mm1n (4,4,4) = barform.