112 A. Katie Morey (Appendix)
[There are no known English versions of this ballad.]
CONTENTS:
1. Coffin's Narrative
2. My Brief
ATTACHED PAGES (see left hand column):
1. Recordings & Info: Katie Morey
A. Roud Number 11: Baffled Knight/Katie Morey ( Listings)
2. Sheet Music: Katie Morey (Texts and some music examples)
3. US & Canadian Versions
Coffin's Narrative (From: British Traditional Ballad in North America)
In 1950 Coffin wrote about Child 112- The Baffled Knight: Barry, Brit Bids Me, 455 states that a similar story was well-known in Maine under the title, Katie Morey. This song is printed in Shoemaker, Mt Mnstly, 131 from Pennsylvania as Kitty Maury; in SharpC, Eng F-S So Applchns, 211 from Tennessee and North Carolina as Katie Morey; in Eddy, Blds Sgs Ohio, 64 from Ohio as The Shrewd Maiden; and in Perry, Carter Cnty, 122 from Tennessee as Katy Morley. However, these versions and others like them are secondary at best.
Brief by Richard L. Matteson Jr.
Versions of Katie Morey (Katie Morie, Katy Mory) have been classified under Child 112 The Baffled Knight by Eddy and more recently Steve Roud. This is a US ballad resembling the plot of Child 112: The Baffled Knight.
Tolman/Eddy report that "Katy Mory" in fifteen stanzas, the last two quite free in their nature, occurs in an American broadside of about 1830 (no imprint): "Katy Mory, and Poll and Mistress" (Harvard College). Other texts from the 1800s include the traditional versions found in Douglas c. 1841-1856 (Thompson 1958) and Shoemaker 1857.
Texts: see US and Canadian Versions