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    Anyone know how I'd find the lyrics to the old time song Angeline the Baker. ? 10 min on Google didnt find a thing. Thanks

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    I have always enjoyed The Critton Hollow Stringband Version...

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    And Crooked Still's take...

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    Angelina Baker was a Stephen Foster song with lyrics that went through the "folk process," emerging as the "old time" tune and song most commonly heard today.
    The current version has some melodic differences, but its roots in Foster's song are pretty clear. Foster's lyrics, in dialect, are the lament of a plantation slave whose love has disappeared.

    "But now I'm left to weep a tear cayse [sic] Angelina's gone." -- Stephen Foster, published March 18, 1850.
    A song about one of the miseries resulting from America's "peculiar institution." I'll say no more.

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    Many thanks to you all. Whatever question I have...you always come through!

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    This type of folk song has many lyrics, so you can choose what you like and even make up your own. You can also find lyrics under the title "Angelina Baker" (apparently she was a baker with the surname, Baker). See below for another, overlapping, set of lyrics.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina_Baker
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    I personally love the Crooked Still version myself!

    I tried to learn the lyrics once to sing along at a jam and had no difficulty Googling the lyrics. I did have a difficulty memorizing them much no less singing in the key of D,

    I just entered "lyrics Angeline the baker" and came up with this: http://www.songlyrics.com/crooked-st...-baker-lyrics/

    I do prefer DuckDuckGo as a search engine but had the same results from Google.
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    Haven’t heard any of these, but I like Dry Branch Fire Squad’s version on “Hand Hewn”.

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