The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140911   Message #3258367
Posted By: dick greenhaus
16-Nov-11 - 04:15 PM
Thread Name: Child Ballads: US Versions
Subject: RE: Child Ballads: US Versions
I plead guilty to being RG (when I'm more formal).Version 7 in the DT is very close to Bronson version #27---Peggy Seeger recorded it in Long Harvest, attributing the tune to Louisa Chisholm, Woodsbridge VA. I'd guess I learned it (oral transmission) from Margot Mayo, ca 1948.

It's also version C (Chisholm in Sharp/Karpeles "English Folk Songs in the Southern Appalachians"-1932 edition) Which collection, I should mention, will be re-issued by CAMSCO in the near future.