Rawsberry Lane (OT2003-3013-012)

Rawsberry Lane (OT2003-3013-012)

Raspberry Lane

Song excerpted from audio recording OT2003-3013, part of VFC2003-0007 Margaret MacArthur Collection.

Margaret MacArthur Collection -- VFC2003-0007. Vermont Folklife Center Archive, Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, Vermont, United States of America.

1964-07-16

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VFC2003-0007 OT2003-3013-012

Vermont Folklife Center

Rawsberry Lane

Home Dearie, Home

Folk Music Index (http://www.ibiblio.org/folkindex)

[tape skips]

Day as I rambled through Raspberry Lane
I chanced for to meet with a misses of fame

[Atwood sings melody to self, then claims to have forgotten the lyrics]

[MacArthur singing]

    It's home dearie home

[Atwood singing]

    Home dearie home and home it shall be

[Atwood mumbles to self, sings last line of first verse]

    In North Amerikee

[MacArthur reading the first verse lyrics to him from a text]

    Home dearie home
    And home it will be

[Atwood hurriedly explains the version he knows differs from the text. MacArthur continues reading]

    The oak and the aloe

[Atwood respondes, "huh?" MacArthur continues]

    The oak and the aloe
    And are now growing gr [tape cuts]

[Atwood asks MacArthur if she has the music to it. She does, and changes the subject by asking if he'd like to rest]

References

• "Raspberry Lane" or "Home, Dearie, Home," typewritten Atwood family lyrics transcribed by Edith Sturgis, owned by Margaret MacArthur, archived at the Vermont Folklife Center.

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