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MARCHING ROUND THE LOVIE (ROUND AND ROUND THE LEVEE; IN AND OUT THE WINDOW) Sung by: W.T. Jernigan Recorded in Batesville, AR 7/12/59 Click here to listen to the original recording We're marching 'round the lovie, We're marching 'round the lovie, For we have gained a day. Go forth and choose your lover, Go forth and choose your lover, Go forth and choose your lover, For we have gained a day. I kneel because I love you, I kneel because I love you, I kneel because I love you, For we have gained a day. I'll measure my love to show you, I'll measure my love to show you, I'll measure my love to show you, For we have gained a day. I'll take a sweet kiss and leave you, I'll take a sweet kiss and leave you, I'll take a sweet kiss and leave you, For you have gained a day. (Mr. Jernigan: "As a source of entertainment in the private home, this little game, 'Marching Round the Lovie,' is very interesting. The crowd forms a circle, boy and a girl, boy and a girl, boy and a girl. And some girl takes her place in the center of the circle. And they sing, 'We're marching 'round the lovie . . .' [etc.], and then we sing to her 'Go forth and choose your lover . . .',[ etc.] And she chooses some young boy from the circle. That young boy takes his place in the center of the circle with this young girl. Then they sing 'I kneel because I love you . . .', [etc.] And then they sing next, 'I measure my love to show you,' that's with crossed arms, hand to hand, arm to arm. Finally, then, we sing, 'I take a sweet kiss and leave you . . .', [etc.] That winds it up, unless the boy is inclined to kiss the girl goodbye. Is that it?" Dr. Wolf: "Now go ahead and tell about the others, how they get a new partner, a new one in the circle." Mr. Jernigan: "Then, when this one person leaves, then the one left in the center chooses another partner, and then it's repeated again." Dr. Wolf: "Is the outer ring marching all the time, or do they stop?" Mr. Jernigan: "No, they're standing.") Also found in Randolph, Vol. III, #538, "Round and Round the Levee"; Brown, Vol. III, #76, "In And Out the Window." |
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