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Day 201 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
The 1919 publication gives the name as "Sipping Cider thru' a Straw." Curiously, Sandburg, writing no later than 1927, did not seem to know of this -- implying that this was originally "folk" rather than pop. (The Traditional Ballad Index)
Sandburg writes: "H. Luke Stancil heard this from old men, his neighbors, in the mountains of Pickens County Georgia. And Jess Ricks of Long Island heard it in Taylorville, Illinois, as a boy. R.W.Gordon surmises it may be early minstrel. . . . The syllable "ci" in "cider" is drawn out as if to indicate a prolonged sip."
Day 201 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
The 1919 publication gives the name as "Sipping Cider thru' a Straw." Curiously, Sandburg, writing no later than 1927, did not seem to know of this -- implying that this was originally "folk" rather than pop. (The Traditional Ballad Index)
Sandburg writes: "H. Luke Stancil heard this from old men, his neighbors, in the mountains of Pickens County Georgia. And Jess Ricks of Long Island heard it in Taylorville, Illinois, as a boy. R.W.Gordon surmises it may be early minstrel. . . . The syllable "ci" in "cider" is drawn out as if to indicate a prolonged sip."
