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THE MILLER BOY (Play party) Sung by: Mr. and Mrs. F.E. Ash Recorded in Ash Flat, AR 8/15/58 Click here to listen to the original recording Lives by the mill. The mill turns around with its own free will. One hand in the hopper and the other in the sack, Salute your partner and take a back track. We're sailing east, we're sailing west, We're sailing over the ocean. Says I, "Young man, if you don't watch out, You'll be too slow in the motion." Happy is the miller boy who lives by the mill; The wheel turns around with its own free will. One hand in the hopper and the other in the sack. Salute your partner and take a back track. We're sailing east, we're sailing west. We're sailing over the ocean. Says I," Young man, if you don't look out, You'll take too slow in the motion." (Mrs. Ash: "There's a boy and a girl in pairs in a circle and one extra boy to lead. And the boy in the middle, he starts out by singing "Miller Boy," and then when they say salute your partner and take a back track, he steps in and steals a partner, and then they go again. And then after everyone gets halfway through, then they sing they're sailing east and sailing west and then everyone turns and goes in the opposite direction until they get new partners. The boys go one way and the girl goes the other.") Also found in Randolph, Vol. III, #518; Brown, Vol. III, #74. |
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