Last Night I Slept- Kid Mike (PA) 1961 Abrahams
[From The Erotic Muse: American Bawdy Songs by Ed Cray. Publisher: Univ of Illinois Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992. This was included in Abrahams unpublished portion of his doctoral thesis, Negro Folklore in South Philadelphia. He noted the first stanza was similar to Gypsy Davy. The other stanzas are not included.
R. Matteson 2015]
Last Night I Slept- taken from "Kid Mike" of South Philly by Abrahams in 1961.
Last night I slept in a sycamore tree
The wind blowing all around me.
Tonight I'll sleep in a nice warm bed,
All the girls beside me.