“Ike Brown's Song”

Description

"There is a few songsters, Their like could not be found, Who have been making a song Upon old Isaac C. Brown." The singer tells "how I tended my crops." He leaves home to "dredge the big canal." He describes other canal workers

Supplemental text

Ike Brown's Song
  Partial text(s)

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From Louis W. Chappell, _Folk-Songs of Roanoke and the Albemarle_,
#119, p. 198. Collected in 1934 from Tom Forbes of Old Trap, NC.

There is a few songsters,
Their like could not be found,
Who have been making a song
Upon old Isaac C. Brown.

Now if you will listen
And pay attention well,
I'll tell you how I tended my crops
And dredged the big canal.

(4 additional stanzas)

Notes

As it stands, the song in Chappell is singularly incoherent; at first glance, it appears to borrow parts of at least three songs. But until we can find another Ike Brown song, we can't say much with certainty. - RBW

References

1. Chappell-FSRA 118, "Ike Brown's Song" (1 text)
2. ST ChFRA118 (Partial)
3. Roud #16942
4. BI, ChFRA118