xt77sq8qc90q https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt77sq8qc90q/data/mets.xml Wyman, Loraine. 1920  books b92-127-29187342 English O. Ditson, : Boston : Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. Folk songs Kentucky.Brockway, Howard, 1870-1951. Twenty Kentucky mountain songs  / the words collected by Loraine Wyman ; the melodies collected and piano accompaniments added by Howard Brockway. text Twenty Kentucky mountain songs  / the words collected by Loraine Wyman ; the melodies collected and piano accompaniments added by Howard Brockway. 1920 2002 true xt77sq8qc90q section xt77sq8qc90q 






















TWENTY KENTUCKY



MOUNTAIN SONGS



THE WORDS COLLECTED BY



LORAINE WYMAN



THE MELODIES COLLECTED AND
PIANO ACCOMPANIMENTS ADDED BY



HOWARD BROCKWAY



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    THIS VOLUME OF KENTUCKY SONGS

IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF

       MR. WILLIAM CREECH

GODFATHER OF THE PINE MOUNTAIN CHILDREN

          AND THE FOUNDER

     OF THE PINE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL

 


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          HERE is a unique and an individual quality in the Folksongs of
          the Kentucky Mountains, whether they be ballad, love song, or
          nursery rhyme, for they have sung their way through countless
          generations, unwritten and unrecorded, save by the few who still
keep the love of a "song-ballet" in their hearts. It is the strong link which
binds these people to the past, entirely detached as they have been from the
outside world for so many generations. They have lived their lives oblivious
of modern progress and have remained, like their forefathers, simple people
of the soil.
  In presenting this volume, it is our hope, that we may share with others
the genuine pleasure which these songs gave us when we first heard them
in the mountain homes, where this valuable legacy has been unconsciously
preserved.
  With but few exceptions, the origin of each song can be traced to its Eng-
lish, Scottish or Irish source. Because of their preservation by oral tradition,
they have been invested with a characteristic charm of their own, which we
have made every effort to retain. No melody has been remodelled. The
text has been changed only in a very few instances where memory failed to
record words, lines, or stanzas necessary to complete a version.
  We wish to express our thanks to Mrs. Sallie Adams, Miss Mary Anne
Bagley, the Misses Ora and Polly Dickson, Mr. Leonard Meece, Mr. Robert
Morgan, Mr. Hillard Smith, and Mr. Bristol Taylor, who not only helped
us by contributing with so much good will and patience all the songs which
they could remember, but also, by their cordial hospitality, made of our task
a delightful experience and an unforgettable memory.




New York, October, 1919.



 









                     CONTENTS

                                                           Page
 1. An Inconstant Lover                                         1
 2. Fair Nottiman Town                                          6
 3. The Swapping Song                                       10
 4. Lord Thomas and Fair Ellendor, or The Brown Bride       14
 5. Little Matthew Grove, or Lord Daniel's Wife (Version 1)   22
 6. Noah's Ark                                              36
 7. Young Edward                                            42
 8. Sporting Bachelors                                      46
 9. As I walked out                                         50
 10. The Daemon Lover                                        54
 11. Lord Orland's Wife, or Little Matthew Grew (Version II)    62
 12. The Old Maid                                            72
 13. Charming Beauty Bright                                  76
 14. Come all you young and handsome girls                   80
 15. The Toad's Courtship                                    86
 16. The Gonesome Scenes of Winter                           94
 17. No, Sir, No!                                            98
 18. Fanny Blair                                            102
 19. The Inquisitive Lover                                  106
20. Pretty Polly                                           110


 
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To meeting to meeting to meeting goes I,
To meet loving William he's a-coming by and bye;
To meet him in the meadow it's all my delight,
I can walk and talk with him from morning till night.
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An inconstant true love is worse than a thief;
A thief will only rob you and take what you have,
But an inconstant true love will bring you to your grave.

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Your grave it will rot you and turn you into dust,
There's not one in twenty you'll dare for to trust;
They'll kiss a poor maiden and it's all to deceive,
There's not one in five hundred you'll dare to believe.

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If I am forsaken I am not forsworn,
And you're badly mistaken if you think I do mourn;
I'll dress myself up in some high degree,
And I'll pass as light by him as he does by me.

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Never put your-affections on a green willow tree;
The top it will wither and the roots they will rot,
And if I am forsaken, I know I'm not forgot.



 


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From saddle to stirrup I mounted again,
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And a stark naked drummer-boy beating the drum,
With his heels in his bosom a-marching along.

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They were so mad not a soul looked down,
They were so mad not a soul looked around
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They all stood around a-looking at me;
I called for a quart to drive gladness away,
To stifle the dust for it had rained all day.
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Ten thousand stood round me, yet I were alone,
Ten thousand got drowned before they were born,
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I had to go to London to get me a wife.
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The creeks were wide and the streets were narrow,
And I had to bring her home in an old wheelbarrow.
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Oh, my foot slipped and I got a fall,
And away went wheelbarrow, wife and all.
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I swapped my wheelbarrow and got me a mare,
And then I rode from tare to tare (town).
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I swapped my mare and got me a mule,
And then I rode like a gol-darned fooL
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I swapped my mule and got me a cow,
And in that trade I just learned how.
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I swapped my cow and got me a calf,
And in that trade I just lost half.
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I swapped my calf and got me a sheep,
And then I rode till I fell asleep.
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And I sat it on a haystack for two little cats.
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I swapped my rat and got me a mole,
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"The brown girl she has gold and silver,
Fair Ellendor she has none,
My blessing on you, my own dear son,
If you bring the brown girl home."
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"What news, what news, Lord Thomas" she cried,
"What news hast thou brought unto me"
"I've come to ask you to my wedding,
Now what do you think of me"
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"0 mother, 0 mother, pray what shall I do,
Can't you so see I am all undone,
Shall I go to Lord Thomas's wedding,
Or stay at home and mourn"
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"Dear daughter, you have no business there,
And the brown girl she has some,
My advice to you, my daughter dear,
Is to stay at home and mourn."



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 She dressed herself in a lily-white robe,
 Her head she dressed in green,
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 She pulled all up her rein,
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"O mother, 0 mother, go dig my grave,
Go dig it long and deep,
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