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COFFEE GROWS (FOUR IN THE MIDDLE) Sung by: Jack Escue Recorded in Sidney, AR 8/30/57 Click here to listen to the original recording River flows with brandy, Choose you one as we go out, Sweet as 'lasses candy. There's four in the middle, And you'd better get around. There's four in the middle, And you'd better get around. There's four in the middle And you'd better get around, For I love my Susie Brown. Six in the middle, And you'd better get around. There's six in the middle And you'd better get around. Six in the middle And you'd better get around, For I love my Susie Brown. Now we're all in the middle, And you'd better get around. We're all in the middle And you'd better get around. We're all in the middle And you'd better get around, For I love my Susie Brown. (Mr. Escue: "In this sing and play, they're all around a circle. They're going 'round and 'round and there's a extra boy and a girl in the center of the ring, and when it comes to choose your partner, why, each one of them chooses another boy and another girl, and they swing by the right, and back by the left, and on around. And then another couple joins in when it says six in the middle and they do the same thing. Swing them by the right and then back by the left, and then when you sing all in the middle, that means all eight is in there a-swinging with the right and then with the left. And that's the way you do that.") 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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