Two Little Sisters- Plumlee (OK) 1937 Botkin A
[From The American Play-Party Song; Botkin, 1937 version A. Botkin's notes follow.
R. Matteson 2014]
TWO LITTLE SISTERS
For dance usage, cf. Hudson (Culture in the South), p.524; Pound (Poetic Origins and the Ballad), pp. 53, 54; Thomas (Kentucky) pp. 3-5. Raine (The Land of Saddle-Bags, p.17) notes: " 'Bowee down!' and 'Bow and balance to me!' are a remnant from an old dance jingle, which was occasionally sung by dancers even after the music was furnished by the fiddle."
As is related to the square dance, "Two Little Sisters."
A. Two Little Sisters (Audra A. Plumlee, Norman, Cleveland County.)
1 Two little sisters side by side,
Saying I do, saying I do.
2 Two little sisters side by side,
The boys are bound for you,
The boys are bound for you,
3 Two little sisters side by side,
One of them promised to be my bride,
I'll be kind to my true lov€e
If she'll be true to me.