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Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

Paper of Pins

Contributor

Katherine Kinton

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS pp. 11229- 11230

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song

First line

I'll buy you a paper of pins

'Mother says there are about twenty more stanzas which she could not remember'.

8 stanzas

Contextual Notes

'Mother says that grandmother use[d] to sing this to her when she had the tooth ache. Western South Carolina version'.