The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #155529 Message #3659215
Posted By: Reinhard
11-Sep-14 - 03:02 AM
Thread Name: Can you identify this song? -maid floats down tide
Subject: RE: Can you identify this song? -maid floats down tide
The Waxweed Girl (of the Roud 263 Oxford Girl / Prentice Boy family) has Johnny murdering his love and her being found floating:
5. Her falling to her bended knees
Have mercy, she did cry
O, Johnny dear, don't murder me
I'm not prepared to die
...
12. It was early next morning
The Waxweed girl was found
A floating down the river
That flowed to Waxweed town