John Jacob Niles cites a version he learned from Patterson Whetmore, in 1932 on the steps of the Hatcher Hotel in Pikeville, Ky. This version of the Twa Sisters was called;

THE LITTLE DROWNED GIRL

Derry down and around the old piney tree
I know a lord who lived by the Northern Sea,
He had daughters by one and by two,three

Derry down and around the old piney tree.
Sister fish me out of the raging sea,
You may have my own true lover-ee.

Derry down and around the old piney tree.
She did swim around so heartily,
Until she sank and she did drowndery.

Derry down and around the old piney tree
She was stripped to her bare body,
For her gold and her watches and her fee.

Derry down and around the old piney tree
They hanged the sister and the miller-ee.
On a scaffold 'side of the deep blue sea.

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