From Leonard Roberts, Sang Branch Settlers: Folksongs and Tales of a Kentucky Mountain Family (University of Texas Press, 1974, pp. 130-131; with music transcribed). The last stanza has three lines.

I SAW A SIGHT ALL IN A DREAM

1. I saw a sight , all in a dream,
    There's things before I never seen;
    I saw my companion trav'llin' on
    The way my blessed Redeemer's gone.

2. I saw my husband away behind,
    Him who I love so tender and kind,
    With seven little chillern around her bed
    Remending for their mother kind.

3. A mother kind indeed was she,
    A loving wife she's been to me,
    She called her companion to her bed,
    Ten thousand tears for her he shed.

4. "Companion dear, come pity me,
    Come take my two little babes away,
    Take both my twins all in your care,
    And teach them up in God to fear.

5. "And teach them both to sing and pray
    And to serve the Lord till endless day."
    The sharpest pain run through her breast,
    A-worrying for her two little babes.

6. Poor little babes must cry and weep,
    No breast to suck, cuddle them to sleep;
    It's come, great God, look down and view,
    See what a kind mother has went through.

7. She is paid the debt we all must pay,
    She's left this world to sleep in the clay;
    Come friends and neighbors from all around
    And see her laid in the cold ground.

8. A warning to the human race,
    A warning of the human race,
    We all must go to that cold place.