Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SOURWOOD MOUNTAIN (2), by ANONYMOUS


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SOURWOOD MOUNTAIN (2), by                    
First Line: Chickens crowing on sourwood mountain
Last Line: Devil's in the women if they take a notion
Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life


Chickens a-crowin' on Sourwood Mountain.
Chickens a-crowin' on Sourwood Mountain.

Call up yore dogs and let's go a-huntin'
Hey-ho, dee-iddle-um-day.

My true love lives over the river.
A few more jumps and I'll be with her.

My true love is a blue-eyed daisy.
Ef I don' get her, I'll go crazy.

My true love lies at the head of he holler.
She won't come and I won't foller.

My true love lives over the ocean,
I'll go to see her, if I take a notion.

Say, old man, I want yore daughter
To wash my cloths and carry my watter.

Fifteen cents, a dollar and a quarter,
Say, young man, take her if you want her.

Ducks in the pond, geese in the ocean,
Devil's in the women if they take a notion.




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