709. Molly Darling
'Molly Darling.' Sung by Mrs. G. L. Bostic, Mooresboro, Cleveland county,
September 7, 1939. This song, recorded about seventeen years after the
Jewell Robbins version, is nevertheless almost identical with it. There are,
however, two differences : the ending of the stanza and the lack of a chorus
in the later version. There is another text furnished by Miss Katherine Bernard
Jones from Raleigh, which can be sung to the Bostic tune. Since Ford 330
gives the second of this version as chorus, the whole would have to be sung
to the Robbins tune (F-607). The same title can be found in JAFL Lix
453- F-608
Won't you tell me, Moll - ie darling
That you love no one but me?
For I love you Moll - y
dar - ling. most frequently
Scale : Hexatonic (4) , plagal. Tonal Center : d. Structure : abac (2,2,2,2)
— aai (4,4).