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COFFEE GROWS ON WHITE OAK TREES (FOUR IN THE MIDDLE) Sung by: Mrs. W.B. (Elizabeth) Apple (with piano accompaniment) Recorded in Huff, AR 8/27/62 Click here to listen to the original recording Coffee grows on white oak trees; The river flows with brandy. Go choose a girl to dance with thee, As sweet as 'lasses candy. Four in the middle and you can't jump Josie, Four in the middle and you can't jump Josie, Four in the middle and you can't jump Josie, Ah, Susan Brown. Get out of the rain if you can't jump Josie, Get out of the rain if you can't jump Josie, Get out of the rain if you can't jump Josie, Hello, Susan Brown. Railroad, steamboat, river and canal, I lost my honey in that raging canal, And she's gone, gone, gone, And she's gone, gone, gone, And she's gone in that raging canal. (Comment by Mrs. Apple: "This is an old fiddle tune that I'm going to play. It's the first tune I ever played with my dad. I played the organ; he played the fiddle. I think I must have been 10 years old.") [Fiddle tune follows, played on piano.] (Dr. Wolf: "What's the name of it?" Mrs. Apple: "I don't know . . . I don't know the name of this tune. It's an old fiddle tune that my Dad used to play. I don't know the name of it.") [A second fiddle tune follows.] Also found in Randolph, Vol. III, #524, "Four in the Middle"; Brown, Vol. III, #78, "Coffee Grows on White Oak Trees." |
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