Hi folks,

New here and so don't know what will happen if I post in an old thread, but I am curious about this song, and have spent several days ready various threads here and elsewhere attempting to find out a source for the Clannad version of the song. So far the consensus seems to be that this setting of the song comes from Mrs. Clercy Deeton of NC, and was collected by Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles, but I have yet to find a source for that assertion, in spite of spending a fair bit of time searching. (I am interested in both the melody and lyrics of the Clannad version.) Can anyone confirm a source? I can't seem to find the Sharp book...)

Thanks,
Matthew