One, Two, Come Buckle My Shoe, 2aa, 10: A sequence of riming half-lines, each containing a digit up to twenty. (Spoken.)
XVII.
This group contains songs peculiar to the folk-dances, "frolickings," and movement-games of Kentucky.
Charlie, ii, 4a3b4c3b, an endless improvisation: In praise of Charlie, the dandy, who feeds the girls on candy, drinks the apple-brandy, etc.
Bluebird, ii: A [rhythmical], rimeless, endless improvisation, in which are woven the "calls" of the dance, beginning:
Yonder goes the bluebird through the window
Down in Tennessee.
The Railroad, ii: To be characterized as the above, yet totally different, beginning:
Out on the railroad, O Jubilee,
Waiting for my darling, O Jubilee.
The Boatman, ii: In general form and function like the above, beginning: