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[Letter from Ruby Raines to Julie Abel, December 4, 1989]
No full textLetter from Ruby Raines, from the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of North Texas, to Julie Able, program associate, Getty Center for Education in the Arts. The letter is Raines sending Abel the list of names of the museum and school district representatives who will be attending the February meeting in Chatanooga, Tennessee
Our goodman; Drunken fool, Three nights drunk, When I come home The other night; Drunkards song
No full textvoiceCollected by Parler Mrs. Ruby Abel
Huntsville, Ark August 12, 1958
Reel 308, Item 16
The Drunken Fool This is Max Hunter’s version, learned in folklore class.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
Picture on the wall
No full textvoiceCollected by Parler Mrs. Ruby Abel
Huntsville, Ark.
August 12, 1958
Reel 308, Items 8—10
Three non-folk songs, not transcribed:
8. Let the Rest of the World Go By
9. My Mother's Picture
10. The Watermelon Smiling on the VineFunding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
I wish I was a little bird; Little fish;
No full textvoiceCollected by Parler Mrs. Ruby Abel
Huntsville, Ark.
August 12, 1958
Reel 308, Items 8—10
Three non-folk songs, not transcribed:
8. Let the Rest of the World Go By
9. My Mother's Picture
10. The Watermelon Smiling on the VineFunding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
Watermelon hanging on the vine
No full textvoiceCollected by Parler Mrs. Ruby Abel
Huntsville, Ark.
August 12, 1958
Reel 308, Items 8—10
Three non-folk songs, not transcribed:
8. Let the Rest of the World Go By
9. My Mother's Picture
10. The Watermelon Smiling on the VineFunding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
Coreena, Coreena, where'd you stay last night?
No full textvoiceCollected by Parler
Mrs. Ruby Abel Huntsville, Ark.
August 12, 1958
Reel 308, Item 7
Coreena
Coreena, Coreena, where'd you stay last night? Coreena, Coreena, where'd you stay last night?
Come home this morning, sun was shining bright.
I left Coreena far across the sea.
I left Coreena far across the sea.
She don't write me no letters, she don't care for me.
Coreena, Coreena, a fare thee well,
Coreena, Coreena, a fare thee well,
When I come back there you never can tell.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
Tra la la la la la
No full textvoiceCollected by Parler Mrs. Ruby Abel
Huntsville, Ark. August 12, 1958
Reel 308, Item 14
The Birdie's Ball
Learned from her mother, about 1918, at Ola, Ark.
Spring once said to the nightingale,
I mean to give you birds a ball,
Pray my mass, the birdies all,
The birds and the birdies great and small
Refrain: Tra la la la la la (8 times)
The coocoo and the wren they danced for life,
The raven waltzed with the yellowbird's wife,
The opera dow and the bashful jay Wished each other a very good day.
Refrain.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
I love little Willie, I do, Mama,
No full textvoiceCollected by Parler Mrs. Ruby Abel
Huntsville, Ark.
August 12, 1958
Reel 308, Item 11
I Love Little Willie
"I learned this when I was about three years old in Mangum, Oklahoma.”
Only the first line changes in each stanza.
I love little Willie, I do, Mama,
I love little Willie, I do, Mama,
But don't you tell Papa,
For he won t like it, you know.
He wrote me a letter, he did, Mama.
We're going to get married, we are, Mama.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
Letter From Ruby Doris Smith to her Mother, circa 1964
No full textCorrespondence from Ruby Doris Smith to her mother about being in Conakry, Guinea in West Africa. 4 pages
Letter to Mother From Ruby D. Smith, June 21, 1961
No full textLetter from Ruby Doris Smith in Hinds County Jail, Jackson, Mississippi, to her mother. Smith was in jail for taking part in the Freedom Rides. 1 page
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