Daisy- Anon (NC) 1892 Lila Edmands JAF
[No informant named. A two stanza fragment from The Journal of American Folk-lore, 1892 as taken from Lila W. Edmands' article, "Songs From the Mountains of North Carolina."
Here, the identifying stanza is the second stanza which follows a floating stanza, "The Coffee grows" stanza. An explanation of the origin of the "Coffee grows" stanza is given in Wolfe and Fullerton, "Together We Sing," All Grades (or Enlarged) Edition, Follett Pub. Co., p. 245. Their play-party song titled, "Green Coffee Grows on White Oak Tops," was collected in Tennessee with the following note:
"This Tennessee folk song stems from a time when each cook bought green coffee beans and roasted them to suit her taste before roasting them. For many southern families during the Civil War, the only source for "coffee" was the acorns from the white oak."
R. Matteson 2018]
Daisy- no informant named, it appeared in The Journal of American Folk-lore, 1892 which was taken from Lila W. Edmands' article, "Songs From the Mountains of North Carolina":
1. Coffee grows on the white oak trees,
The rivers run with brandy,
My little gal is a blue-eyed gal
As sweet as any candy.
2. Fly around my blue-eyed gal,
So fly around my daisy,
Every time I see that gal
She almost runs me crazy.