====== #1146 - Lindy ======
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  *Composer:
    *++Thomas S. Allen|{{search>"Thomas S. Allen" @cobs}}++ (1876-1919), 1904
  *Also known as:
    *By the Watermelon Vine, Lindy Lou
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
Down Louisiana where the Mississippi's flowing,\\
Oh, oh, Miss Lindy,\\
On the old plantation where the cotton am a growing,\\
Oh, oh, my Lindy Lou.\\
As I sit a thinking when my days work am through,\\
I think of you, for you're my Lindy Lou,\\
And you'll always find me when I've nothing to do,\\
Singing the same old song.\\
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Lindy, Lindy,\\
Sweet as the sugar cane,\\
Lindy, Lindy,\\
Say you'll be mine,\\
When the moon am a-shining,\\
Then my heart am a-pining,\\
Meet me pretty Lindy by the watermelon vine.\\
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When the moon am shining, and the d---ies am a singing,\\
Oh, oh, Miss Lindy,\\
Over to the big house where the banjos am a ringing,\\
Oh, oh, my Lindy Lou.\\
In the melon patch we sit as cute as can be,\\
Just you and me, on the trunk of a tree,\\
And just like the nightingale I'm happy and free,\\
Singing the same old song.\\
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A copy of 1904 sheet music for the song is held in the University of Maine Vocal Popular Sheet Music Collection and may be viewed online at digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu\\
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    *++Thomas S. Allen|{{search>"Thomas S. Allen" @cobs}}++ (1876-1919), 1904