448
I GoT A Girl
From Miss Jewell Rohhins, Pekin, M()nt!4<inKry county (later Mrs. C. P.
Perdue), with recording.
1 I got a girl, she lives in town.
She wrote me a letter, she's a comin' down.
2 Down the road and across tlie creek.
I ain't had a letter since away last week.
3 1 do red she ain't no fool.
Tryin' to put a saddle on a humpbacked mule.
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448
I Got a Girl
*I Got a Girl.' Sung by Miss Jewell Robbins, Pekin, Montgomery county,
1921 or 1922. Compare this tune with another song by the same contributor:
'Negro Song,' F-571, which is p2,2,2) = abc (4,4,4).