This comes from Tom Glazer's version as heard on Volume I of the "Musical Heritage of America" (CBC Records, 1974) Where have you been all the day Randall my son? Tell me where have you been all the day My pretty one? I've been to my sweetheart's, mother, I've been to my sweetheart's, mother, Make my bed soon, for I'm sick to my heart And I fain would lie down. What have you been eating there, etc Eels and eel broth, mother, etc. What was the color of their skin? Spickled and spackled, mother, What will you leave your sister? My houses and cattle, mother What will you leave your brother? My gold and my silver, mother What will you leave your sweetheart? A rope to hang her, mother
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