“Sucking Cider through a Straw”

Description

"The prettiest girl that I ever saw Was sucking cider through a straw." "I told that gal I didn't see how She sucked the cider through a straw." "And now I've got me a mother-in-law From sucking cider through a straw."

Notes

The 1919 publication gives the name as "Sipping Cider thru' a Straw." Curiously, Sandburg, writing no later than 1927, did not seem to know of this -- implying that this was originally "folk" rather than pop. - RBW

Same tune

• The Other Day I Met a Bear (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 44; DT, IMETBEAR)

Recordings

• [Arthur] Collins & [Byron] Harlan, "Sipping Cider Through a Straw" (Pathe 22157, 1919) (Edison 50627, 1920) (CYL: Edison [BA] 3846, n.d.)
• Vernon Dalhart, "Sippin' Cider" (Columbia 1712-D, 1929)

References

1. BrownIII 47, "Sucking Cider through a Straw" (1 fragment)
2. Sandburg, p. 329, "Sucking Cider Through a Straw" (1 text, 1 tune)
3. Silber-FSWB, p. 239, "Sipping Cider Through A Straw" (1 text)
4. DT, SIPCIDER*
5. Roud #7867
6. BI, San329