Dandoo- (KY) pre1911 Shearin-Combs

Dandoo- (KY) pre1911 Shearin-Combs

From: A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-songs by Hubert Gibson Shearin, Josiah Henry Combs. This book published in 1911 lists the ballads and folk songs that were circulating in Kentucky at that time. Few complete texts are included and informants are not listed.

Dandoo: A fragmentary variant of The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin, Child, No. 277, as follows:

He put the sheepskin to his wife's back,
Dandoo;
He put the sheepskin to his wife's back,
Clima cli clash to ma clingo,
He put the sheepskin to his wife's back
And he made the old switch go whickity-whack,
Then rarum scarum skimble arum
Skitty-wink skatty-wink
Clima cli clash to ma clingo.