Henry's Songbook

All Day Singing

• (Trad)

All day singing, supper's on the ground
Old folk and young folk gathering round
All of the neighbours you'll get to see
Oh come along Mary, come sit by me

Some from Leicester and far away
Come early in the morning and stay all day
Every kind of vittle that you ever did see
Oh come along Mary, come sit by me

Bring your fried chicken and your chocolate cake
Bring all of the goodies that you can bake
Bring along your guitars, harmonica too
Oh come along Mary, oh come along do

Repeat 1

(as sung by The Spinners)

Susannes Folksong-Notizen

•   [1977:] Learnt from Joe Locker of the New Deal String Band. Leader-and-chorus song - each line is repeated by the whole group. Old American picnic song. (Notes The Spinners, 'All Day Singing')

•   [1992:] Am wichtigsten waren [in den amerikanischen Südstaaten] Sänger: nicht die Nachbarn, die zum Picknick auf dem Lande ihre Fiedeln und Gitarren mitbrachten, wie Elvis [Presley] es zu tun pflegte, oder die in der Kirche sangen, was er ebenfalls tat, sondern die professionellen. (Greil Marcus, Mystery Train 164)