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[Andy Bach]

Dormi Mon Enfant,
'Ti Marie Do-Do Cherie
Si Li Pas Do-Do Cocotte
Crab la va Mange, Cherie

>From "Music Time" with Charity Bailey (pdf of the album and liner notes)
https://folkways-media.si.edu/liner_notes/folkways/FW07307.pdf

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 10:19 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh my heavens! I had forgotten all about the Creole until you mentioned it,
> and now there're a few ragged fragments in my mind. Maybe some more will
> come back to me.
>
> ??: Is this one of the songs you meant?:
>
> *Dormi, mon enfant, *
> *Close your eyes, my sweet babý.*
> * If you do not sleep, my love, *
> * Crab will pinch your toes, babý. *
> * If you do not sleep, my love, *
> * Crab will pinch your toes.*
>
> Mark
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020, 4:54 PM Margaret Winters <mewinters at wayne.edu> wrote:
>
> > I found out several years ago when I googled her to find out who she was.
> > I still remember (and sing, though not always safely in tune) the four
> > songs I learned from that one record I mentioned.  It wasn't until I
> > studied French, though, that I understood the creole words - I'd
> basically
> > learned them as a string of sounds.
> >
> > ----------------------------
> > MARGARET E WINTERS
> > Former Provost
> > Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
> > Wayne State University
> > Detroit, MI  48202
> >
> > mewinters at wayne.edu
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of
> Mark
> > Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:47 PM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Subject: Re: big apple
> >
> > OMG! When I was a kid in the fifties, my family played a lot of folk
> music
> > (on records), probably instilling in me the love of and fascination with
> > singing, especially folk songs, that I retained and reveled in to this
> day.
> > Among the singers were the Weavers, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Burl Ives,
> > and *Charity
> > Bailey*. And until five minutes ago I never knew she was Black. Thank
> you.
> >
> > Mark Mandel
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 4, 2020, 8:20 AM Margaret Winters <mewinters at wayne.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Some time in the 50s there was a New York City local children's program
> > on
> > > TV with Charity Bailey, a black singer and educator.  I think I still
> > have
> > > the 78rpm record of her singing 4 songs, three in English and one in
> > French
> > > creole.  See
> > >
> >
> https://folkways.si.edu/charity-bailey/music-time-with/african-american-music-childrens/album/smithsonian
> > > [https://folkways-media.si.edu/images/album_covers/SF1400/FW07307.jpg
> ]<
> > >
> >
> https://folkways.si.edu/charity-bailey/music-time-with/african-american-music-childrens/album/smithsonian
> > > >
> > > Music Time with Charity Bailey | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings<
> > >
> >
> https://folkways.si.edu/charity-bailey/music-time-with/african-american-music-childrens/album/smithsonian
> > > >
> > > Singer and educator Charity Bailey, who was director of music at the
> > > progressive Little Red School House in New York City, offers a
> collection
> > > of songs aimed at a very young audience. Children from Sarah Lawrence
> > > Nursery School in New York City participated in the recordings. The
> > > traditional song “...
> > > folkways.si.edu
> > >
> > > ----------------------------
> > > MARGARET E WINTERS
> > > Former Provost
> > > Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
> > > Wayne State University
> > > Detroit, MI  48202
> > >
> > > mewinters at wayne.edu
> > >
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