In reply to Carol Cook:

It's very interesting that your grandfather sang this song, as that would make it the only instance of the song being noted in tradition in the States. See how much you can remember and commit it to tape.

I am trying to tell everyone about the Roud index. Steve Roud is an English folklorist who has put together a marvellous working aid of English-language folksongs, using MSAccess. He has noted every instance he can find of songs being collected, with the name and location of the performer, the date, the collector and so on. More importantly, he has given each song a Roud Number, so that all the versions of, say, Frankie and Johnnie have the same number. Now Child only noted about 300+ different songs whereas Roud has noted over 10,000. It's a great working aid and enables me to make statements like "All the listed versions are Scottish or English". The Index is not readily available, but if you PM me, I can put you in touch with Steve. He charges £25 for the index, with free updates. I don't know what he would charge in USD. I consider it hugely important, and predict that it will feed a lot of folksong scholarship.

PM me if you want to know more.

Gwilym