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Subject: for a cousin! From: usmcfam@hereintown.net Date: 05 Oct 99 - 03:08 AM My Cousin just remembers a part of a song it has something to do with an Auctioneer selling a house of this lady and her daughter. The son had run off when he was young and now he came back and is at the auction and is the one who ends up buying the house. Here is a few of the words my cousin can remember: "Auctioneer don't sell our house my mother is feeble, old & gray and we have no place to stay." This is an old song her mother sang it to her! Here is another one: She says it is called Letter Edged/Etched in black, but it is not the one on the list. She says it has something to do with this lady coming home and finding this letter and finds out her husband has run off with another woman. This is an old one too. Good luck! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! |
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Subject: Letter Edged in Black From: Jeri Date: 05 Oct 99 - 08:39 AM THE LETTER EDGED IN BLACK is here |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: for a cousin! From: katlaughing Date: 05 Oct 99 - 08:42 AM Welcome to the Mudcat. You will have better luck getting attention for your thread, if you start over and include what you think is the name of each song (separate thread for each one) or a few of the words which you know in the title of the thread. It grabs people's attention more, to be able to quickly scan the titles and click on the one they might know. Good luck. katlaughing |
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Subject: Auctioneer song From: Joe Offer Date: 05 Oct 99 - 02:46 PM I didn't find the song you're looking for, but when I searched our database for auctioneer, I found this gem (click). It'll give you a good laugh. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: for a cousin! From: usmcfam@hereintown.net Date: 07 Oct 99 - 02:10 AM Thank You all very much! I had already looked here in the song database and come up with the ones you have suggested! Thanks Again! But the lyrics are not going with what my cousin had told me! I'll keep trying! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Auctioneer, don't sell our house...' From: GUEST,999 Date: 05 Dec 09 - 10:17 PM It may be on jstor. I used a google of auctioneer, feeble and gray The first site (top of the google page) is entitled Five Folksongs from Richmond, Indiana at www.jstor.org/stable/27649818 Sure looks like what the fellow (?) is looking for, but I can't access it. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Auctioneer, don't sell our house...' From: Joe Offer Date: 06 Dec 09 - 01:16 AM I have a friend who has JSTOR access. I sent him a PM. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Auctioneer, don't sell our house...' From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 06 Dec 09 - 02:07 PM I have access to Jour. American Folklore back volumes and a couple of others, but "Hoosier Folklore" is not covered by my JAL subscription. (Article by Jane Willets). |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Auctioneer, don't sell our house...' From: Joe Offer Date: 06 Dec 09 - 07:25 PM Well, I thought I could get access through my stepson's college account, but it only gives me the first page of the document. Anybody else have JSTOR access? -Joe- |
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Subject: Lyr Add: DON'T SELL THE OLD HOMESTEAD From: GUEST,999 Date: 06 Dec 09 - 07:50 PM OK. I had tunnel vision. I googled the line "And my dear loving sister so sickly and pale" and BINGO. Don't Sell the Old Homestead - Max Hunter Folk Song Collection ... There it is, large as life. Don't Sell the Old Homestead Cat. #0201 (MFH #137) - As sung by Lucy "Pat" Pricket, Eureka Springs, Arkansas on September 2, 1958 VERSE 1 |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Auctioneer, don't sell our house...' From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 07 Dec 09 - 03:42 PM Thanks, 999. The Max Hunter site also has the musical score. http://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/indexsongtitle.aspx?Letter=D Dont Sell |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Auctioneer, don't sell our house...' From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 07 Dec 09 - 03:44 PM Sorry, not supposed to put the address, just the link. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE OLD HOMESTEAD From: Jim Dixon Date: 08 Dec 09 - 09:38 PM From A Command Performance Vol. II Songs as Remembered and Sung By Agnes Amelia Ransom Burton (1886 - 1969) THE OLD HOMESTEAD There's an old home that stands on the square For ninety long years, that old homestead has stood Surrounded by trees and a fence that is worn The home of my forefathers, where I was born. You seldom would find a happier lot Than our little family, that dwelt in a cot There were father and mother, sister, brother, and I 'Til sickness came o'er us, and father did die. Then brother left home to find something to do But where he had gone to, no one even knew, We toiled late and early to keep down the debt, And oft-times I find myself pleading them yet. Don't sell the old home, don't sell it I pray Do not turn my mother out, so feeble and so gray, And my dear loving sister, so weak and so frail-- Auctioneer, auctioneer, won't you please stop the sale? In vain and re-pleading, without any vail The auctioneer continued to cry on the sale, The very best bidder was a man, quite unknown He paid down the money, and he purchased our home. Then mother and I with hearts sad and sore Prepared the next morning to leave our cottage door, When the stranger walked up, saying, "Your sorrows are done, For I am your own, your long lost son." Then love and rejoicing were there on that day When brother embraced mother, so feeble and so gray. And my dear loving sister, so weak and so frail, And that put an end to that dreadful sheriff's sale. Learned from her husband, Caleb Johnson Burton, before 1900. Since the only line that doesn't rhyme is line two, perhaps it ended "stood there" instead of "has stood." |
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