ALL AROUND THOSE OLD BLACK STUMPS Sung by: Zona Everett Recorded in Oxley, AR 8/20/59 Click here to listen to the original recording All around, all around those old black stumps, All around, all around those old black stumps, That grows in yonders garden. Choose the one that you love best, Choose the one that you love best, Choose the one that you love best, That grows in yonders garden. (Everett: "Then the next will be put two girls in there, and you sing it, but I don't remember the rest of it." Wolf: "All right. Explain how you do it." Everett: "You form a ring around two boys, first, then you sing this verse. And then they choose a partner, and then they play, but I can't remember what to put in there. And then the girls goes inside, and the boys forms a ring around and then the girls has to choose a partner.") |
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