Leadbelly - Red Bird
1940 Smithsonian Folkways 40045
"Now this is another children's play song and the children is playing and they got warm now, and they're playing and what they been doing has got pretty good to them. They got a little speed up. Now they gonna sing, they playing in the ring, they singing and playing 'Red Bird Soon in the Morning'. As they play 'Red Bird Soon in the Morning', everybody going round in the ring, nobody inside the ring and they gonna swing and sing this time, 'You swing my partner and I'll swing yours and keep all the way' round the ring till you get back home. Then you settle down. They gonna sing 'Red Bird'."