Humor and Nonsense- Songs & Ballads from Overton Co.
[Some individual texts for songs in this chapter are attached to this page on the left hand column. Links from this page may be done at a later date.
R. Matteson 2014]
CHAPTER VIII- HUMOR AND NONSENSE
This chapter presents the poems of humor and nonsense. They fall into two major divisions. The first presents the humorous love poems that have a dash of love in them. Of the twenty-five poems in this chapter twelve fall into this group.
CONTENTS
How to Make Love
The Bulldog Down in Sunny Tennessee
Chawin' Chawin' Gum
Chewing Gum (2)
The Little Pink Dress [A Paper of Pins]
The Possum and the Coon [Sally Gooden]
I Love That Cindy [Cindy]
Frog Went A Courtin'
Away Out on that Mountain
Bachelor's Hall
It'll Never Happen Again
Blue Yodel [Muleskinner Blues]
The Bug Song [Variant- Bile Them Cabbage Down]
All-Go-Hungry Hash Blues
Great Grandad
My Old Coon Dog [Whoa Mule]
Swapped My Horse and Got Me A Mule
Hi-Rye Hoopdy-Do
The Old Cow Crossed The Road
The Old Grey Goose [Aunt Rhody]
Hole in the Bottom of the sea.
It was Midnight on the Ocean
[Frog Went A- Courtin'] (2)
[Ida Red]