2B. All Bow Down- Cooke (WV) 1926 (Child 10)
[From: Traditional Ballads & Folk Songs Mainly from West Virginia- John Harrington Cox- 1939 Edited by George Herzog and Herbert Halpert 1939 and George Boswell, 1964.
R. Matteson 2014]
2B. - ALL BOW DOWN
(The Twa Sisters, Child, No. 10)
Communicated by Miss Margaret Nestor, Oceana, Wyoming County, 1926. Obtained from Miss Dixie Cooke, Cyclone.
1. There was an old woman lived on the seashore,
All bow down,
There was an old woman lived on the seashore,
She had some daughters, three or four,
All bow down.
2. The youngest one she had a beau,
The oldest one she didn't know.
3. The youngest one's beau bought her a beaver hat,
The oldest one she didn't like that.
4. "Oh sister, oh sister, let's walk the seashore,
And watch the wild waves as they race o'er.
5. As they were walking out on the seashore,
The oldest one pushed the youngest one o'er.
6. "Oh sister, oh sister, please lend me your hand,
I'll bring you safe on to dry land."
7. "I neither will lend you my hand nor my glove,
For all you want is my own true love."
8. She bowed her head and away she swam,
She swam till she came to the miller's dam.
9 The miller threw out his drifting hook,
And brought the dead maid out of tho brook.
10 The miller was hung at his own mill door,
For bringing the dead maid to the shore.
11 This lady was hung at her own yard gate,
For drowning her sister Kate.