Below is Sharp 57-A, I've got two English versions in my collection entitled "Arise! Arise!" The English versions (one by Sharp) have the "drowsy sleeper" image and the father "holds the weapon" in the US versions the weapon usually becomes "the silver dagger," ending usually in the tragic double suicide. No one is certain how the two became entwined.

I also have one version from Virginia with the "Arise! Arise!" title. The Bascom Lunsford version has "the bloody dagger" but it's not silver (probably some cheap iron).

Note in the Sharp version the "down in some lone valley" which is the "East Virginia/Dark Hollow" reference. Sharp has many version collected in the US.

AWAKE! AWAKE!
Sharp No. 57-A; Sung by Mary Sands at Allanstand, NC Aug. 1, 1916

1. Awake! Awake! You drowsy sleeper,
Awake! Awake! It's almost day;
How can you lie and sleep and slumber,
And your true love going far away.

2. Say, my love, go ask your mother,
If you my bride, my bride shal be;
And if she says, "No" love come and tell me,
It will be the last time I'll bother thee.

3. I'll not go ask my mother,
For she lies on her bed at rest;
And in her hands she holds a paper
That speaks the most of my distress.

4. Say, my love, go ask your father,
If you my bride, my bride shall be;
And if she says, "No" love come and tell me,
It will be the last time I'll bother thee.

5. I will not go ask my father,
For he lies on his bed at rest;
And in his hands he holds a weapon,
To kill the man that I love best.

6. I'll go down in some lone valley,
And spend my weeks, my months, my many years,
And I'll eat nothing but green willow,
And I'll drink nothing but my tears.

7. Then come back, come back, my own true lover,
Come back, come back in grief cried she,
And I'll forsake both father and mother,
And I'll cry, love, and pity thee.

Richie

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