Dandoo- Payne (MO) 1933 Randolph
[Belly-wether in stanza 3 and 5 refers to bell wether, i.e. a sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell.]
From Randolph's Ozark Folksongs- Vol. 1: British Ballads and Songs
35. DAN-DOO
Child (English and, Scottish Popular Ballads, 1882-1898, No. 277) rep.rts severai versions of this ballad under the title "The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin." For American texts see Belden (Song-Ballads and Other Popular Poetry, 1910, No. 12), Campbell and Sharp (English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, 1917, No. 33), Pound (American Ballad and Songs, 1922, No. 6), Cox (Folk-Songs of the South, 1925, No. 29), Hudson (Specimens of Mississippi Folk-Lore, 1928, No. 21) and Davis (Traditional Ballads of Virginia, 1929, pp. 497-504), also JAFL (7, 1894, p. 253; 19, 1906, p. 298; 28, 1915, p. 200; 30, 1917, p. 328). Add the Missouri texts and tunes reported by Belden (Ballads and Songs, 1940, pp. 92-94), the Indiana texts of Brewster (Ballads and Songs of Indiana, 1940, pp. 151-154), and Anderson's version from East Tennessee (Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 8, 1942, p. 74). This item appears in the Brown (North Carolina Folk-Lore Society) collection. See a refrain, "Harum, skarum, stand a barum" given by McCollum and Porter in JAFL 56, 1943, p. 103.
Dandoo- Sung by Mr. Frank Payne, Galena, Mo., July 29, 1933.
The old man come in from his plow,
Dan-doo, dan-doo,
The old man come in from his plow,
He says is my supper ready now?
Come a hang scram bang sally mingo,
Kill um clash, come on a clingo.
She says there's meat an' bread on the shelf,
Dan-doo, dan-doo,
She says there's meat an' bread on the shelf,
If you want any butter you can git it yourself,
Come a hang scram bang sally mingo,
Kill um clash, come on a clingo.
The old man went out to his pen,
Dan-doo, dan-doo,
The old man went out to his pen
An' got him a tough old belly-wether skin, [1]
Come a hang scram bang sally mingo,
Kill um clash, come on a clingo.
He put the skin on the old gal's back,
Dan-doo, dan-doo,
He put the skin on the old gal's back
An' then the hickory went clickety clack,
Come a hang scram bang sally mingo,
Kill um clash, come on a clingo.
Go send for your daddy an' all your kin,
Dan-doo, dan-doo,
Go send for your daddy an' all your kin,
To see how I tan my belly-wether skin, [1]
Come a hang scram bang sally mingo,
Kill um clash, come on a clingo.
1. bell wether= a sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell.