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Thread #161752 Message #3846343
Posted By: GUEST,diplocase
23-Mar-17 - 02:38 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Son Oh Son / Sheath & Knife
Subject: Lyr Add: SON OH SON (from Boiled in Lead)
Can anyone point me to recordings of this American version of Sheath and Knife, apart from Boiled in Lead on their album Orb? I don't have their liner notes. Any background on where it was first collected, any collection it appears in? Many thanks, diplocase
Son Oh Son
(Down By the Greenwood Side, Sheath & Knife Child #6 w elements of Edward, Child #13)
as sung by Boiled in Lead
It's up in the kitchen, down in the hall
All a-lee and a-lonely
Willie's the father of his sister's child
Down by the greenwood side
Took her down to the merry wood
All a-lee and a-lonely
There he shot his sister dead
Down by the greenwood side
He goes back to his mother's home
All a-lee and a-lonely
Welcome to me, my son, my son
Down by the greenwood side
Son, oh Son, why are you so pale?
All a-lee and a-lonely
I been down in the greenwoodd hunting quail
Down by the greenwood side
There's no quail away down there
All a-lee and a-lonely
I'm down there killing a white-tail deer
Down by the greenwood side
There's no pistol kills a deer
All a-lee and a-lonely
O Willie, where's your sister dear?
Down by the greenwood side
Oh Mother, oh, Mother make my bed
All a-lee and a-lonely
For I have shot my sister dead
Down by the greenwood side
Then Son, where will you go
All a-lee and a-lonely
For your Father will kill you when he comes to know
Down by the greenwood side
He'll bury you under yon mill
All a-lee and a-lonely
If he doesn't kill you, I surely will
Down by the greenwood side