From garst@sunchem.chem.uga.edu Tue Oct 7 12:33:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: from listmail.cc.uga.edu (listmail.cc.uga.edu [128.192.232.10]) by almaak.usc.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4/usc) with ESMTP id MAA08197 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 12:33:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sunchem.chem.uga.edu by listmail.cc.uga.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.63D3A240@listmail.cc.uga.edu>; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 15:33:41 -0400 Received: from [128.192.5.76] (garst.chem.uga.edu [128.192.5.76]) by sunchem.chem.uga.edu (8.8.5/8.8.3) with ESMTP id PAA06159 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 15:33:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 15:39:15 -0400 To: Ed Cray From: John Garst Subject: Big Jim Folsom Status: RO X-Status: A Ed, I was just browsing in The Erotic Muse (second edition) and noticed the Big Jim Folsom song, pp 132-133. This song was sung by my fraternity at Mississippi State College in 1950-54. The tune was similar the one you print, but a little different (second phrase goes up to C, instead of A, and steadily descends to G, instead of jumping around - end of last phrase steadily descends from A to F instead of jumping around, as I recall). Our 4 verses were similar to the ones you print with minor variations. 1st verse, 3rd line: When she met that Christian gentleman, Big Jim Folsom 2nd verse (identical with the one you print) 3rd verse (identical with your 4th verse) 4th verse: Now the moral of this story, Don't you (donchu) walk the streets at night, You might meet that Christian gentleman, Big Jim Folsom, And forget to do what's right. Within a few years of when I came to the University of Georgia in 1963, I heard this song performed in public by a sorority washboard band. They used your third verse as their fourth (as in the Mississippi State version) with the following 3rd line: With that Alabama gentleman, Big Jim Folsom. I haven't heard this song in recent years, but then, I haven't much been where I might have. john garst garst@sunchem.chem.uga.edu