432
Boil Them Cabbage Down
See White ANFS 303 and Scarborough TNFS 124 and 168. See
also Mrs. Steely 221-4 (1934)-
From Julian P. Boyd, from an anonymous pupil of the school at Alli-
ance. Pamlico county; undated, but c. 1927-28.
Boil them cabbage down.
Turn them round and round.
Look out, nigger, don't give me any sass,
And boil them cabbage down.
Turn them round and round.
Look out. nigger, don't you give mc any sass,
And boil them cabbage down.
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432
Boil Them Cabbage Down
'Boil Them Cabbage Down.' Sung by Mrs. Ewart Wilson, Pensacola, Yancey
county, about 1929. For a text similar to our stanza cf. Ill 32 and 35, 17F
and 17Q ; also APPS 145. For similar refrain cf. Ill 354, No. 298 and 526,
No. 445. Cf. also III 121, No. 86A, seventh stanza; AMS 88; and TSFL
710, refrain.
F-402
I won't mar-ry a preach -er, I tell you the rea - son
why, He's al - ways in the coun - try And eat - ing chick-en
pie. Boil them cab - bage down, Turn them round and round.
All the tune that I can sing is 'Boil Them Cab-bage Down.'
For melodic relationship cf. **AMS 88, last three measures only.
Scale: Hexatonic (6), plagal. Tonal Center: f. Structure: aba^bi (4,4,4,4).