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Day 289 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
My title for this is "Love Among the Potatoes".
First published in Carl Sandburg's The American Songbag
Sandburg writes: "A quizzical, round-the-corner laughter at trouble that started where the potato blossoms grow. C. W. Loutzenhiser, the old railroad man of Chicago, who as a boy traveled with his father’s circus, said he often sang this with, an Irish girl, and the both of them used to wonder as the years went by, why they met only this one verse."
But, before The American Songbag was published in 1927, Sandburg snuck in another verse he found into the Preface of the songbook.
Day 289 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
My title for this is "Love Among the Potatoes".
First published in Carl Sandburg's The American Songbag
Sandburg writes: "A quizzical, round-the-corner laughter at trouble that started where the potato blossoms grow. C. W. Loutzenhiser, the old railroad man of Chicago, who as a boy traveled with his father’s circus, said he often sang this with, an Irish girl, and the both of them used to wonder as the years went by, why they met only this one verse."
But, before The American Songbag was published in 1927, Sandburg snuck in another verse he found into the Preface of the songbook.
