May I refresh?
Gee! I didn't mean to ask a difficult question! I assumed that since I like this song, and it is a great song, and it is done by fine folk singers, and it is on a Folk Legacy classic, that the music would be on the tips of many mudcatter's fingers.
Back in Feb '97, there was a thread seeking info about a song that sounded similar to this song, but the caller's question was never answered. How strange? It is a very haunting song, but not haunting enough to scare good people away.
For further info, it starts with, "All along the old back road, people stop and they talk at her garden gate. While in the house the family cried, because the old woman had passed away". Other excerpts include: "... a lovely lady and a gentle old soul. And she taught me to sing an old folk song, its got a melody of a hundred years ago. And she sang come-a-hoot, come-a-hoot, come-a-hollow, come down the merry string. I remember it." And, "Oklahoma in the summertime, in her rocking chair singing there on the porch, while the hounds are barking through the hot black night and that old fox, well he's a-running like he never ever run before."
I'd truly appreciate some help on this. Thanks.