SOme of us are going to be at the "Harry Smith Memorial Festival" in Greenfield MA this weekend (starting Friday July 16 2004) and we'll sing through a LOT of soings in the Anthology. See if we come up with a consensus on this one. . . always liked Smith's explanation of why Henry Lee is the FIRST song. . . "it was the lowest-numbered Child ballad which I included, so it had to go first." (Nobody has mentioned the womens' trio of this on the Folkways "Berkeley Farms" record from the early 1970s, which was great!)