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Old Bald Eagle Sail Around- Appalachian Folk Song

This traditional folk song is based off of Jean Ritchie's recording on her 1957 album "Children’s Songs and Games from the Southern Mountains." "Old Bald Eagle Sail Around" is a "play party" song. Play parties began in the mid-19th century as a creative solution to religious restrictions on dancing and the playing of instruments. At these social gatherings, women and men would sing traditional songs and clap to choreograph dances which were given the more innocent label of “games.” (An interesting side note my mamaw, or grandmother, recalls that when she helped to organize square dances in east Tennessee in the 1950s, the dances were referred to as “folk games” to avoid disapproval from local dance-wary Baptists!) Despite the fact that these parties were intended as alternatives to more rowdy social gatherings, folklorists like Vance Randolph have observed that such occasions, at least in the mid-20th century Ozarks, typically involved some drinking and “tom cattin’” (i.e. intimacy) around the outskirts of the dancing. By the time Jean was growing up in eastern Kentucky, it was mostly children who used play party games for their own amusement. Today, though play parties have essentially died out, their songs- such as “Skip to My Lou” and “Old Dan Tucker”- are used in early grade school classrooms across the country, helping children learn coordination and timing that they will use in work and play for the rest of their lives. This version of “Old Bald Eagle” includes accompaniment on mountain dulcimer and a reproduction 19th- century minstrel banjo, instruments that would have been contemporaneous to play parties, but usually not welcome. All the verses in the song are as Jean sang them, except for the “little log house in Johnson Town” verse, which I added. Saro Lynch-Thomason- Vocals and mountain dulcimer Corbin Hayslett- Banjo Recording by Benjamin Bateson, ETSU Recording Studio Recorded 2018 Lyrics Old bald eagle sail around, Daylight is gone. Old bald eagle sail around, Daylight is gone. Backwards and forwards across the floor Daylight is gone. Backwards and forwards across the floor Daylight is gone. Sail around Maggie, sail around Daylight is gone. Sail around Maggie, sail around Daylight is gone. You swing here and I’ll swing there, Daylight is gone. You swing here and I’ll swing there, Daylight is gone. Big fine house in Baltimore, Sixteen stories high. My little love she lives down there Hope she’ll never die. Little log house in Johnson town Up on the hill My little love he lives down there Hope he always will. Old bald eagle sail around, Daylight is gone. Old bald eagle sail around, Daylight is gone. Backwards and forwards across the floor Daylight is gone. Backwards and forwards across the floor Daylight is gone.