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Thread #163826 Message #3923148
Posted By: Richie
09-May-18 - 11:57 AM
Thread Name: Origins: James Madison Carpenter- Child Ballads 2
Subject: RE: Origins: James Madison Carpenter- Child Ballads 2
Hi,
Two stanzas with music; James Madison Carpenter Collection, JMC/1/6/5/B, p. 09622
Douglas Tragedy- sung by Mrs. Isabella Reed of Port Gordon, c. 1931
"Hold on, hold on," Lord William," she cried, "For your strokes is so wondrous sair, It's sweethearts I got many's the one, But a father I'll never get mair."
He mounted her on his milk-white steed, Himself on his dapple grey, His sword and his bugle horn hanging down by his side, And straight they both rode away.