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|f_annotation='''PUT MY LITTLE SHOES AWAY.'''  American, Air (4/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part.
|f_annotation='''PUT MY LITTLE SHOES AWAY.'''  American, Air (4/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Put My Little Shoes Away" is an 1873 song written and composed by Samuel M. Mitchell (lyrics) and Charles E. Pratt (music). It has been frequently recorded through the years beginning in the 78 RPM era, and has endured as a popular song among bluegrass performers. The first two stanzas go:
<blockquote>
''Now, come and bathe my forehead, Mother''<br>
''For I'm growing very weak''<br>
''Let one drop of water, Mother,''<br>
''Fall upon my burning cheek''<br>
<br>
''Go and tell my little playmates''<br>
''That I never more will play''<br>
''Give them all my toys, but Mother,''<br>
''Put my little shoes away''<br>
</blockquote>
|f_printed_sources=Stephen F. Davis ('''The Devil's Box'''), vol. 25, No. 2, Summer 1991; p. 46.
|f_printed_sources=Stephen F. Davis ('''The Devil's Box'''), vol. 25, No. 2, Summer 1991; p. 46.
|f_recorded_sources=Crooked CD 002, Crooked Jades - "Seven Sisters" (2000).
|f_recorded_sources=Crooked CD 002, Crooked Jades - "Seven Sisters" (2000). Riley Puckett (1926). OKeh 45046 (78 RPM), Henry Whitter (1926).  
|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index:An Index to Recorded Sources [https://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/p09.htm#Putmylis]
|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index:An Index to Recorded Sources [https://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/p09.htm#Putmylis]
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PUT MY LITTLE SHOES AWAY. American, Air (4/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Put My Little Shoes Away" is an 1873 song written and composed by Samuel M. Mitchell (lyrics) and Charles E. Pratt (music). It has been frequently recorded through the years beginning in the 78 RPM era, and has endured as a popular song among bluegrass performers. The first two stanzas go:

Now, come and bathe my forehead, Mother
For I'm growing very weak
Let one drop of water, Mother,
Fall upon my burning cheek

Go and tell my little playmates
That I never more will play
Give them all my toys, but Mother,
Put my little shoes away


Additional notes



Printed sources : - Stephen F. Davis (The Devil's Box), vol. 25, No. 2, Summer 1991; p. 46.

Recorded sources : - Crooked CD 002, Crooked Jades - "Seven Sisters" (2000). Riley Puckett (1926). OKeh 45046 (78 RPM), Henry Whitter (1926).

See also listing at :
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index:An Index to Recorded Sources [1]

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