Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Kentucky version of Lady Isabel
From:
cnd
Date: 24 Feb 21 - 04:36 PM
The book suggested by 999 back in 2012 can be seen here. Here are the potential lyrics Judith was looking for, with an (abbreviated) as sung by Mrs. Hattie Melton of Allenstand, NC:
1. He followed her up and he followed her down,
He followed her where she lay,
And she not havin' the strength to withstand,
Nor the breath to say him nay.
2. "Go fetch me a sack of the old lord's gold,
And most of your mama's fee,
And a pited hoss and an iron-gray,
From your stable of thirty-and-three."
3. If Ishbel did ride at the villian's side,
With the gold and her mama's fee,
She was ridin' far off to the broad seaside,
Where married she would be.
4. "Get down, get down, my right pretty miss,
Your hour has come, I see,
For here I've drownded nine young ladies gay,
And you the tenth one will be.
5. "Pull off, pull off that shiny silk gown,
And them right pretty rings you own,
For women's clothes cost too much gold
To rest in the salt sea foam."
6. "It's turn, oh turn, oh turn your head,
And look at yon green-growin' tree,
For if I doff my shiny silk gown,
A naked lady you'll see."
7. He turned his face around about,
To look at that green-growin' tree,
And she grabbed him round the middle so small,
And she flicked him into the sea.
8. "Lay there, false villian, lay cold and dead,
Lay there in room of me,
For it's nine gay ladies you've drownded here,
But the tenth one drownded ye."
9. Her pited hoss tuck her right quickly home.
She led the iron-gray,
And when she entered her father's hall,
The sky was breakin' day.
10. "Speak none of my pranks, my right pretty poll,
Else I'll make you out a liar.
But if you be wise, your cage shall be made
Of pretty golden wire."
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