The Little Mohee

Written by: [Traditional]
Language: English
Comments: Song dating back to at least 1847. Description - A (foreign soldier) is greeted by a pretty Indian lass named Mohee. She offers to take him into her tribe if he will marry her. He will not stay as he has a sweetheart at home. Returning home, he finds his girl has left him, and wishes himself back with Little Mohee.

As I was a-walkin' upon a fine day
I got awful lonesome as the day passed away
I sat down a-musing, alone on the grass
When who should sit by me but a sweet Indian lass.

The tune of "Little Mohee" was collected by the American fieldworkers Loraine Wyman and Howard Brockway in Pine Mountain, Kentucky on May 8, 1916 from a singer named Mary Ann Bagley, and published by them in 1916, in their collection Lonesome tunes, song ballets and love songs of the Kentucky Mountains.

Only 2 months later, July 29, 1916, the same tune, as sung by Miss Memory Shelton at Alleghany, N.C., this time coupled with the lyrics of "On Top of Old Smokey" was collected by Cecil Sharp in his collection English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians.
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Versions

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Little Mohee	Flora Noles	1926	First recording on March 12, 1926 First release
The Little Mohee	Buell Kazee	August 11, 1927
My Little Mohi	Roe Brothers & Morrell	December 1927
Little Maumee	Riley Puckett	August 1928
The Little Mohee	Dan Hughey (Bradley Kincaid)	1929
My Little Mohee	John Jacob Niles	1938
Little Mohee	Burl Ives	1949
The Little Mohee	Ed McCurdy	1958
Little Mohee	The Marty Gold Orchestra and Chorus	March 1959
The Little Mohee	Joseph Able Trivett	1962
Little Mohee	Denis Gibbons	1962
Little Mohee	Mac Wiseman	1966
Little Mohee	Tom Paxton	1968
Little Mohee	Dellie Norton	2002
My Little Mohee	Kitchman / Schmidt	November 27, 2020