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Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
01-Oct-05 - 11:40 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Infidel's Daughter
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Infidel's Daughter
The Roud Folk Song Index currently lists one example only; no Roud number, so presumably not seen.

The Infidel's Daughter (first line, Father I am surely dying)

Virginia Folklore Soc. Coll. (Univ. Virginia, Charlotteville)

(Details from Arthur Kyle Davis, Folk-Songs of Virginia: A Descriptive Index and Classification of Material Collected under the Auspices of the Virginia Folklore Society.. Durham: Duke University Press, 1949 (rep. New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1965) p.299)

Performer: Mrs Hazel Collins, Salem, Virginia, USA, 25 July 1935.

Collector: Alfreda M Peel

Text only. The book, as a descriptive index, may not quote the full text; but I haven't seen it. I think it was again reprinted in 1998 by Pelican Press.

The Virginia Folklore Society website is at http://faculty.virginia.edu/vafolk/public.htm.