Awake, Awake!- Eliza Pace (KY) 1917 Sharp MS
[Single stanza with music from Sharp's MSS. Collected by Cecil J. Sharp. The 1932 EFSSA notes follow.
R. Matteson 2016]
Texts without tunes:— Gavin Greig's Folk-Song of the North East, i, art. 54.Broadside (no imprint). Journal of American Folk-Lore, xx. 260; xxix. 200.Cox's Folk Songs of the South, p. 348 (see also further references).
Texts with tunes :—Christie's Traditional Ballad Airs, i. 225. Journal of the Folk-Song Society; i. 269; iii. 78. Songs of the West, 2nd ed., No. 41. Folk Songs from Somerset, No. 99 (published also in English Folk Songs, Selected Edition, i. 72, and One Hundred English Folk-Songs, p. 106). Folk-Songs of England, v. 12.Journal of American Folk-Lore, xxv. 282 (tune only); xxx. 338 ; xxxv. 356. W. R. Mackenzie's Ballads and Sea Songs of Nova Scotia, No. 99. Sturgis and Hughes's Songs from the Hills of Vermont, p. 30.
Awake, Awake! - Sung by Eliza Pace of Hyden, Kentucky on October 6, 1917 Sharp MS. Collector: Cecil J. Sharp.
"Awake, awake, you drowsy sleeper.
Wake up it's almost the break of day.
How can you lie and sleep and slumber,
When you know your true love is going away?"