The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #53964   Message #833514
Posted By: masato sakurai
23-Nov-02 - 06:58 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Farmer's Boy (the)
Subject: RE: Origins: Farmer's Boy (the)
THE FARMER'S BOY in the DT is from H.M. Belden, ed., Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society (University of Missouri Press, 1940, 1955, pp. 272-273; text only), with this note: "'A Farmer's Boy.' Contributed by Miss Josephine Norville of Chillicothe, Livingston County, in 1907, with the note that she got it 'last summer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. It was sung at an "Old Folks' Concert" by Mr. Fred Perkins, who says that his father and grandfather both used to sing it."