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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Uncle Dave Macon
Author: traditional
Label: Vocalion
Year: 1924
Roud #4211. Also as Boil Them Cabbage Down. See also: Run Mountain. According to Alan Lomax the ingredients cooked in the lyrics echoe West African origin.
Covers:
Fiddlin' John Carson [as Boil Dem Cabbage Down]
Smothers Brothers [as Cabbage]
Doc Watson [as Boil That Cabbage Down]
Roger Whittaker [als Boil Them Cabbage Down]
Floating verses were repeated in Crow Black Chicken by the Leake County Revelers (1928) covered by Ry Cooder on Boomer's Story ('72). So it's probably no coïncidence his son Joachim Cooder filled his first own album (Over That Road I'm Bound - '20) with nothing but Uncle Dave Macon songs.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)