"Sippin Cider" is an echo song where the "leader" sings each line and then the "group" repeats each line. Then at the end of each verse the whole group sings the whole verse together.
This is the same tune and exactly the same type of song as The Littlest Worm. Given that they both involve sipping from a straw, I'd imagine one is based on the other.
Sippin Cider
Camp Song
The prettiest girl
I ever saw
Was sippin' cider
Through a straw.
(Repeat whole verse.)
I told that gal
I didn't see how
She sipped that cider
Through a straw.
(Repeat whole verse.)
Then cheek to cheek
And jaw to jaw
We sipped that cider
Through a straw.
(Repeat whole verse.)
And now and then
That straw would slip
And I'd sip some cider
From her lip.
(Repeat whole verse.)
And now I've got
A mother-in-law
From sippin' cider
Through a straw.*
(Repeat whole verse.)
The moral of
This little tale
Is to sip your cider
Through a pail.
(Repeat whole verse.)
Notes
*Alternate verse:
And now I've got
A mother-in-law
And nineteen kids
That call me "Paw" (or "Maw").
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