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'''ROCKING MY SUGAR LUMP'''. AKA – “Who's Been Rocking My Sugar Lump?” Old-Time, Breakdown. A 'sugar-lump' is a euphemism for a sweetheart. Lowe Stokes’ variation of the old standard “[[Boil the Cabbage Down (1)]],” recorded in 1930 with his band The Swamp Rooters (or Pot Lickers), which included Bert Layne on fiddle and Arthur Tanner on banjo, among others from the North Georgia-based Skillet Lickers circle of musicians. It is a derivative of on an older children's play-party song that dates at least to the second half of the 19th century in America. A 1952 recording in the John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection at Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas, of the singing of W.P. Detherow (Batesville, Arkansas) reveals that a play-party song called “Ladies Rocking” is also based on the “Bile Them Cabbage” tune. The words to this version go: 
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''All around this ring, my sweet sugar lump,''<br>
''All around this ring we go.''<br>
''All around this ring, my sweet sugar lump,''<br>
''All around this ring we go.''<br>
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''Ladies rocking, my sugar lump,''<br>
''Oh, ladies rocking, my sugar lump.''<br>
''Ladies rocking, my sugar lump,''<br>
''Oh, turn back, sinners, turn.''<br>
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''Rock a little faster, my sugar lump,''<br>
''Oh, rock a little faster, my sugar lump,''<br>
''Rock a little faster, my sugar lump,''<br>
''Oh, turn back, sinners, turn.''<br>
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The end line is sometimes given as “Turn back, Cinnamon” which is a miss-hearing or mondegreen of ‘turn back, sinners’ or perhaps 'turn back, sinner man'. The ‘Cinnamon’ play-party words and directions for the figure can be found in '''Publications of the Folk-Lore Society of Texas, No. 1''' (1916, pp. 22-23), and similar collections. [https://books.google.com/books?id=HU5LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=Rocking+my+sugar+lump&source=bl&ots=9tFSWXu1IQ&sig=a5WDUKcBos57cEsulhas7kuXUY4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwih1MKt0sXXAhWGYiYKHRLzBp44ChDoAQgnMAA#v=onepage&q=Rocking%20my%20sugar%20lump&f=false].
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<font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> -  Brunswick 549 (78 RPM), Lowe Stokes & His Pot Lickers (1930). Document DOCD8045, Lowe Stokes in Chronological Order, vol. 1: 1927-1930 (1999 reissue). </font>
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See also listing at:<br>
Hear Lowe Stokes recording on youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMuMlplPg7k][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP40Lf7P_J0]<br> 
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