Hi,

My other versions from NJ aren't great. Here's on collected by Hudson in 1936. It has "fawn":

JIMMY RANDALL- Sung by Charles "Dixie" Archer, age 76, Cookstown, New Jersey, July, 1936. Tune not obtained. Learned around Cassville.

1. Jimmy Randall was a-fowling one evening of late,
When he shot Molly Bannon, and her beauty were great.

2. She was under a green tree, a shower for to shun,
With her apron pinned around her and he shot her for a fawn.

3. But it's when he came to her, and found she were dead,
A fountain of tears in her apron he shed.

4. Then Jimmy Randall ran home with his gun in his hand,
Saying, "Father, dear father, I've shot Molly Bann.

5. "She were under a green tree, a shower for to shun,
With her apron pinned around her, and I shot her for a fawn."

6. Then up stepped his uncle with his hair all so grey,
"Stay at home, Jimmy Randall, and do not run away.

7. "Stay at home, Jimmy Randall, till your trial is at hand,
And you shall be cleared by the laws of this land."

(Another verse, not remembered, "tells how he was cleared").

Richie