448. I Got a Girl

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).