Ah, but following up that motif, remember the man from whom Dorothy Scarborough recorded The Seven Sleepers, a version of Earl Brand or The Douglas Tragedy, who said after singing it ~~ "That was a true song. It happened way back yonder in Mutton Hollow. I was there myself. Somebody got killed over the girl. I was there soon after it happened. Another man was after the girl and one man shot him".

[cited in M J C Hodgart, The Ballads, Hutchinson, London 1950, p.139]

~M~