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MOLLY BROOKS. AKA and see "Marlbrouk," "Malbrou(c)k," "We Won't Go Home Until Morning." Old-Time, Play-party and Dance Tune. The play-party song was collected in the Applachians, Illinois and the Ozarks. In Virginia it is sung as a play-party ditty beginning:

Moll Brooks, come out of the water, until you learn to swim.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources:

Recorded sources: Tradition TLP 1007, Richard Chase - "Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians" (1956).

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

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