This group contains paralipomena
which baffle individual description. It embraces
counting-out rimes, jigs, lullabies, child-rimes,
nonsense-rimes, and ditties. They are always rhythmical,
and usually rimed, varying in length from a couplet
to an endless improvisation. The following list
is an attempt to name them:
Cluck, Old Hen; Frog in the Meadow; Old as Moses;
When I was a Little
Boy; Sugar in the Gourd; I’ll Build My Nest
in a Tree; Old Dan Tucker;
Possum up a Gum-stump; By-o Baby Bunting; Peter Punkin-eater;
Chickamy
Corney-crow; William Trimmel Tram: Shidepoke
and Crane; Johnny’s out on
Picking; Sourwood Mountain; Frisky Jim; Ground-hog;
Tarry; Granny, Will
Your Dog Bite?; Old Sam Simons; Beefsteak When I’m
Hungry; Gray Goose;
Needle and Thread; It Rained so Hard; I’ll Never
get Drunk Anymore; Rock
Island; Show Me the Way to Go Home; Sometimes Drunk
and Sometimes Sober;
Apples in the Summertime; Coony has a Ringy Tail:
I Went Down Town;
Sally in the Garden; Old Dad; Coon-dog; Rabbit Walked;
Shoo, Old Lady,
Shine!; Hook and Line; Day I’m Gone; Churn Your
Buttermilk; Kalamazine;
Hang Down Your Head; I Feel; Shoot Your Dice; Sara
Jane; Whickum-whack;
Up to the Court-house; Come a High Jim Along; Had
an Old Mare; To
Rowser’s; Roll the Old Chariot Along; Shady
Grove; Whangho; Cripple
Creek.