ON A BRIGHT AND SUMMER'S MORNING
On a bright and summer's morning, the ground all covered with snow,
I put my shoulder to my gun, and a-hunting . . .
A - hunting I did go.
I went up on the mountain, beyond yon high hill,
And fifteen or twenty, ten thousand . . .
Ten thousand I did kill.
The money that I got for the venison skin, I hauled it to my daddy's barn,
And it wouldn't half go I - . . .
It wouldn't half go in.
Some boys and girls were skating, on a bright and summer's day,
The ice broke through, they all fell in, the rest they run . . .
The rest they run away.
I went up on the mountain, beyond the peak so high,
The moon come round with lightning speed. "I'll take a ride," says . . .
"I'll take a ride," says I.
The moon come around the mountain, it took a sudden whirl,
My feet slipped and I fell out, and landed in this . . .
And landed in this world.
The man that made this song tune, his name was Benny Young,
If you can tell a bigger lie, I'll say you ought to be . . .
I'll say you ought to be hung.
Emrich, Duncan, American Folk Poetry - An Anthology Little, Brown and Company - Boston-Toronto, 1974, p 18. "On A Bright and Summer's Morning was recorded by Artus M. Moser from the singing, with banjo, by Bascom Lamar Lunsfor of South Turkey Creek, North Carolina, at Swannanoa, North Carolina, 1946. Library of Congress record LP 21."
Available: AFS L 21: ANGLO-AMERICAN SONGS AND BALLADS ($8.95)
Recorded in various parts of U.S. by several collectors, 1938-47. Edited by Duncan Emrich. 9-page brochure.http://www.loc.gov/folklife/folkcat.html
Sincerely,
Gargoyle