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Birmingham/Crawdad Song/Sweet Thing/Baby Mine
Not related to: "Birmingham Jail"
Old-Time Song and breakdown
ARTIST: Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers- 1928
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CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes
Listen To: Banjo Pickin Girl- Coon Creek Girls
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes
DATE: 1938 First Published as “Baby Mine” Words Charles Mackay; Music Achibald Johnson in 1874.
RECORDING INFO: Birmingham [Me II-Z 8e]
Rt - Uncle Bud
Corn Dodgers. Nobody's Business If I Do, Rooster 106, LP (1980), trk# B.05
Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers. Echoes of the Ozarks, Vol. 1, County 518, LP (1970), trk# A.01 [1928/02/06]
MELODY OF: "Crawdad (Sugar Babe)"
OTHER NAMES:
RELATED TO: Uncle Bud (Skillet Lickers); Baby Mine; "New River Train" “I’m Going Back to Jericho”Going round the World Baby Mine; Banjo Pickin’ Girl; Going Round This World; Living on the Mountain Baby Mine; Going Away From Home;
SOURCES: Folk Index;
NOTES: "Birmingham" is a version of "Crawdad Song/Sweet Thing" and is related to all the Baby Mine songs.
BIRMINGHAM- Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers
I'm going down to Birmingham my darlin'
I'm going down to Birmingham my darlin'
I'm going down to Birmingham shoes and stockin's in my hand,
Sweet pea.
Cow and dog they both were dead this mornin'
Cow and dog they both were dead this mornin'
Cow and dog they both were dead rode that Devil to the promised land,
This mornin'.
Bully in town don't come along, this mornin'
Bully in town don't come along, this mornin'
Bully in town don't come along, walke all the way to the valley below
This mornin'.
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