Joe, you've earned the right to make wise cracks anytime! Thanks again, lad!

It occurs to me that I ought to point out that the verse I quoted above as one I choose to sing rather than the one originally collected with the ballad, namely:

Carry me to yonders stile
And lay me down while I bleed awhile.

was modified slightly from another Appalachian version, collected in 1939 by Herbert Halpert from Mrs. Polly Johnson in Wise, Virginia. I didn't make it up myself.

Sandy