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Adam Was The First Man
Taditional Old-Time, Bluegrass Gospel;
ARTIST: Collected by EC Perrow 1913 The Journal of American FolkLore, Volumes 25-26 By American Folklore Society
CATEGORY: Traditional Bluegrass Gospel;
DATE: 1800s; First collected 1909
RECORDING INFO: Adam Was The First Man
SOURCES: The Journal of American FolkLore, Volumes 25-26 By American Folklore Society
NOTES: "Adam Was The First Man" is a traditional gospel song collected by EC Perrow in 1909. It appears in The Journal of American FolkLore, Volumes 25-26 By American Folklore Society in 1913.
34. ADAM WAS THE FIRST MAN- EC Perrow 1913
(From Mississippi; negroes; MS. of F. R. Rubel; 1909)
Adam was the first man that ever was invented;
He lived all alone, and he never grew co[n]tented.
Along come Eve, and they had a battle;
Sot up a tree, and they fotched down an apple;
They fotched down two, and each took one,
And ever since then the trouble begun.
Along come Noah, stumbling in the dark;
Picked up a hammer, and built himself an ark;
In come the animals, two by two, —
The hippo hippo potumus and the kikangaroo.
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