The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #86220 Message #4144901
Posted By: GUEST,Liz Milner
20-Jun-22 - 11:01 AM
Thread Name: Origins/Authenticity:Lonely Willow Tree (Child #4)
Subject: RE: Origins/Authenticity:Lonely Willow Tree (Child #4)
The last verse is Dyer-Bennet's. In the notes to RDB-12, he writes, "I learned this in Concord, Mass., in about 1939, from a young woman in whose family the song had been handed down for several generations."