Sipping Cider Through a Straw
| "Sipping Cider Through a Straw" | |
|---|---|
| Song | |
| Published | 1894 |
| Genre | |
| Songwriter | Possibly W. Freear |
"Sipping Cider Through a Straw" is a folk song of uncertain origin. A minstrel song titled "Sucking Cider Thro' a Straw", with words and music attributed to W. Freear, was published in 1894 by White-Smith in the United States;[1] this composition may be the origin of the folk song, or may owe its own origin to the folk song.
W. Freear was a comic performer with Moore & Burgess's Minstrels in the late 19th century. His song "Suckin' Cider Thro' a Straw" was published in Great Britain by Charles Sheard & Co., and Sheard also held the U.S. copyright.[2] It was noted in waltz time in the key of F. The first line is "The funniest girl that I ever saw, Was sucking cider thro' a straw". The lyrics go on to describe how a man ends up married because of sucking cider through a straw with a girl; the White-Smith sheet music advertised it as "drolly delivered to shrieks of laughter".[3]
In The American Songbag (1927), Sandburg's sources reported "Sipping Cider" as a folk song, heard in Pickens County, Georgia by one and Taylorville, Illinois by the other.[4]
"Sipping Cider Through a Straw", in numerous variations, has been part of the repertory at American summer camps for many years.[5]
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