“Cindy”

Description

"You ought to see my Cindy, She lives 'way down south, She's so sweet the honeybees Swarm around her mouth. Get along, Cindy, Cindy...." Describes attempts to court Cindy, as well as her occasional extravagances. Many floating verses

Cross references

• cf. "Jinny Go Round and Around" (floating lyrics)
• cf. "Whoop 'Em Up, Cindy"
• cf. "Liza Jane" (floating lyrics)
• cf. "Get On Board, Little Children" (tune)
• cf. "I Met a Handsome Lady" (lyrics)
• cf. "Turn, Julie-Ann, Turn" (floating lyrics)
• cf. "Early Monday Morning" (floating lyrics)

Recordings

• Gene Austin, "Cindy" (c. 1927; on CrowTold01) (Victor 20873 [as by Bill Collins], 1927; this may be the same recording as the preceding)
• Milton Brown & his Musical Brownies, "Get Along, Cindy" (Bluebird B-5654, 1934)
• Samantha Bumgarner & Eva Davis, "Cindy in the Meadows" (Columbia 167-D, 1924)
• W. E. Claunch, "Cindy" (AFS, 1939; on LC02)
• Vernon Dalhart, "Cindy" (Challenge 405, c. 1928)
• Lawrence & Vaughan Eller, "Cindy in the Summertime" (on FolkVisions1)
• Ford & Grace, "Kiss Me Cindy" (OKeh 45157, 1927; on CrowTold02)
• Ernest Hare & Al Bernard, "Cindy" (OKeh 40011, 1924; rec. 1923)
• Hill Billies, "Old Time Cinda" (OKeh 40294, 1925); "Cinda" (Vocalion 5025/Brunswick 105 [as Al Hopkins & his Buckle Busters], 1927)
• Bradley Kincaid, "Cindy" (Champion 15851 [as Dan Hughey]/Supertone 9568, 1929) (Brunswick 464, 1930)
• Lulu Belle & Scotty "Get Along Home Cindy" (Conqueror 8594, 1935; Melotone 6-03-59, 1936; Vocalion 05487, 1940)
• Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Get Along Home, Cindy" (Brunswick 228, 1928)
• J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers "Kiss Me Cindy" (Bluebird B-7289, 1937)
• Shorty McCoy "Cindy" (Bluebird 33-0511, 1944)
• New Lost City Ramblers, "Cindy" (on NLCR04)
• Pickard Family, "Cindy" (Coast 253, n.d.)
• Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers, "Get Along Home, Miss Cindy" (Victor 21577, 1928)
• Poplin Family, "Cindy Gal" (on Poplin01)
• Frank Proffitt, "Cindy" (on Proffitt03)
• Riley Puckett (w. Clayton McMichen), "Cindy" (Columbia 15232-D, 1928; rec. 1927)

References

1. Randolph 564, "Get Along Home, Cindy" (2 texts, 1 tune)
2. BrownIII 404, "Cindy" (6 texts, mostly short, with the usual load of floating verses; some may be other songs with this chorus tacked on); also 163, "The Raccoon Has a Bushy Tail" (1 text plus 2 fragments; the "C" text has the chorus of "Cindy")
3. Fuson, p. 172, "Liza Jane" (1 text, probably a version of "Po' Liza Jane" but with a "Cindy...Cindy Jane" chorus)
4. Lomax-FSUSA 28, "Cindy" (1 text, 1 tune)
5. Lomax- FSNA 119, "Cindy" (1 text, 1 tune)
6. Botkin-AmFolklr, pp. 899-900, "Cindy" (1 text, 1 tune)
7. PSeeger-AFB, p. 61, "Cindy" (1 text, 1 tune)
8. Silber-FSWB, p. 35, "Cindy" (1 text)
9. DT, CIND
10. Roud #836
11. BI, LxU028