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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SOURWOOD MOUNTAIN (2), by ANONYMOUS 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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PIONEER WOMAN by EVA K. ANGLESBURG LARABELLE; CANTO FIRST by LEVI BISHOP SYMBOL OF OUR COUNTRY by MAUD MCKINSEY BUTLER TO A SILVER BIRCH by BEULAH JACKSON CHARMLEY PIONEER WOMAN by ELIZABETH DE MARY A GOLDEN DREAM by KATHRYN ROESER DUNLAP A PIONEER WOMAN by IRENE WELCH GRISSOM THE WATERS OF LUNG-T'OU (THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER) by HSU LING TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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