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Bullfrog Jumped is a collection of songs sung by mothers, grandmothers, school teachers, babysitters, and children across Alabama. During the summer of 1947 they sat at their kitchen tables and on their front porches in front of a portable disc recorder and enthusiastically shared their favorite folksongs with Professor Byron Arnold, a “songcatcher.”  They wanted children to learn them and sing them for many years to come.  On this CD you will hear 42 songs and games and the sounds of life in the singers’ neighborhoods.  .


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Track 5: Shoemaker Song

Track 12: The Old Gray Cat

Track 15: Cornbread

 Track 19: Little Sally Walker

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Songs, Singers and Hometowns of the Singers:

1  Tic Toc   Annie Laurie Carleton Grove Hill
2 All the Little Horses Pansy Richardson Mobile
3 If You Can't Thread the Needle Jane Peavy Atmore
4 Two Little Gentlemen from the Spring Mozella Longmire Atmore
5 Shoemaker Song  Katherine Leggitte Grove Hill
6 Riggity Jig Martha Drisdale Sheffield
7 Old Gray Goose Callie Craven Gadsden
8 All the Pretty Little Ponies Jane Peavy Atmore
9 Old Pompey Pansy Richardson Mobile
10 Rebel Dog Laurie Cater Carleton Grove Hill
11 A Tisket, A Tasket  Mozella Longmire Atmore
12 The Old Gray Cat Martha Drisdale Sheffield
13 Too Daddle Addle Addle Julia Greer Marechal Mobile
14 The Little White Daisies Pansy Richardson Mobile
15 Cornbread Crumbled in Gravy Mary Chapman Grove Hill
16 Old Shiboots and Leggings Callie Craven Gadsden
17 O Johnny Dear Myrtle Love Hester Florence
18 Skip to My Lou My Darling Pansy Richardson Mobile
19 Little Sally Walker Mozella Longmire Atmore
20 Bullfrog Jumped Laurie Cater Carleton Grove Hill
21 Paper of Pins Julia Greer Marechal Mobile
22 Lank Dank Kimo Janie Couch Guntersville
23 Little Lap Dog Vera Hall Livingston
24 Green Gravel Martha Drisdale Sheffield
25 Miss Jenny O. Jones Pansy Richardson Mobile
26 All the Pretty Horses Julia Greer Marechal Mobile
27 Ain't Gonna Rain No More Vera Hall Livingston
28 King William was King James's Son Pansy Richardson Mobile
29 Like a Leaf or Feather  Martha Drisdale Sheffield
30 On Springfield Mountain May Randlette Beck Mobile
31 Shoo Rye Mozella Longmire Atmore
32 Frog Went A' Courting May Randlette Beck Mobile
33 Bower of Roses Martha Drisdale Sheffield
34 Dance to your Daddy Kate Newton Middleton Mobile
35 Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Pansy Richardson Mobile
36 Trotting Song Kate Newton Middleton Mobile
37 Riding in a Buggy Vera Hall Livingston
38 Here Comes Someone A' Roving Pansy Richardson Mobile
39 What'cha Gonna Do?  Kate Newton Middleton Mobile
40 Feed the Animals Mae Erskine Irvine Florence
41 The Farmer Martha Drisdale Sheffield
42 When I was a Young Girl Julia Greer Marechal

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