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Thread #159568   Message #3782475
Posted By: Richie
31-Mar-16 - 01:16 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Gosport Tragedy/ Cruel Ship's Carpenter
Subject: RE: Origins: Gosport Tragedy/ Cruel Ship's Carpenter
OK,

The Pettit version I posted was from Hilliard Smith of Kentucky and a MS version was given to Campbell in 1910. In 1917 Sharp collected the same version (his C). Smith sang the ballad two ways- with two endings (see Sharp MS).

The Coon Creek version is here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ZCQmD2m0Q

The Coon Creek Girls formed in the mid- 1930s in Renfro Valley (as a radio group) and were sisters Lily May and Rosie Ledford (from Powell County, Kentucky) along with Esther "Violet" Koehler (from Indiana) and Evelyn "Daisey" Lange (from Ohio).

After listening to both I have a correction:

"Gold, diamonds on her fingers and her lily white hands"

It's sung fast so. . .

Richie