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Version from Beth's Notes. This version is longer than the one I learned from "Step It Down," but she sourced it from the American Folk Song Collection (see next picture.)
Version from the American Folk Song Collection at the Kodaly Center at the University of the Redlands. I attempted to find the original recording, but it has not been put on the internet. Here's where I think you can check it out from the Library of Congress.
I found the written record of the "Just from the kitchen" recording by Lomax, however a search of the Lomax Digital Archive found no record of this recording. (I searched Zora Hurston, Florida, 1935, Kitchen, Shoo and no luck.) Again, here is the Library of Congress link.
Version from Step it Down by Bessie Jones. Here is one recording of her singing it for Alan Lomax in 1961, and here's another with hand clapping and slightly louder volume. Bessie Jones explains the game briefly here and here is a longer commentary by Bessie Jones in 1961 about the lyric's meaning.
Version from Ranky Tanky, a South Carolina band that performs a lot of the music collected in Step It Down.
Version by Elizabeth Mitchell, an artist who released an album of American folk song with Smithsonian Folkways.
Version #3 from the American Folk Song Collection. Here is the digitized recording by John Lomax of Albertine Keith from MMurrells Inlet, SC made in 1937.
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