Cindy (folk song)
"Cindy" ("Cindy, Cindy") is a popular American
I'se gwine down ter Richmond
I'll tell you w'a hit's for:
I'se gwine down ter Richmond
Fer ter try an' end dis war
An'-a you good-by, Cindy, Cindy
Good-by, Cindy Ann
An'-a you good-by, Cindy, Cindy
I'se gwine ter Rappahan[1]
As with many folk songs, each singer was free to add verses, and many did. In addition, as Byron Arnold and Bob Halli noted in An Alabama Songbook, performers could swap verses with those of other songs, including "Old Joe Clark" and "Boil Them Cabbage Down".[2]
The tune is taken from the spiritual "The Gospel Train", also known as "Get on Board Little Children".
Recordings
Modern versions of the song include modified lyrics, such as the following:
- You ought to see my Cindy
- She lives way down South
- And she's so sweet the honey bees
- All swarm around her mouth
- Get along home Cindy, Cindy
- Get along home Cindy, Cindy
- Get along home Cindy, Cindy
- I'll marry you some day
In film and television
Van Johnson sings part of it in the 1956 movie Miracle in the Rain.[3]
The song is performed in the 1957 episode of Maverick, "Hostage" by Don Durant.[4]
The song is performed in the 1959 John Wayne movie Rio Bravo,[5] by Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan.
Andy Griffith sings this song in season 3 episode 10 "Opie's Rival" of The Andy Griffith Show (1962).
On the Lawrence Welk Show episode "My Blue Heaven" (1964), Dick Dale and the Lennon Sisters perform this song.
References
- ^ Culbertson, Anne Virginia. (1909). "How Mr. Terrapin Lost His Beard" from The Ten Books of the Merrymakers Volume VII, edited by Marshall P. Wilder. New York: The Circle Publishing Company. pp. 1328โ1335.
- ISBN 9780817313067.
- ^ Miracle In the Rain (1956) - IMDb
- ^ "Maverick" Hostage (TV episode 1957) โ IMDb
- ^ Rio Bravo (1959) โ IMDb