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Babes In The Woods Schottische-Laws Q34
American Schottische; ARTIST: From Bayard- Strosnider. CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes; DATE: Early 1900’s;
RECORDING INFO: (For the song "Babes in the Woods"-Laws Q34) Copper, Bob and Ron. English Shepherd and Farming Songs, Folk Legacy FSB-019, Cas (1964), cut#A.07; Hart, Tim; and Maddy Prior. Folk Songs of Olde England. Vol. 1, Mooncrest Crest 23, LP (196?), cut#B.06 Karl and Harty. Karl and Harty's Fireside Songs, Dave Minor, Fol (194?), p61 Ledford, Lilly Mae. Banjo Pickin' Girl, Greenhays GR 712, LP (1983), cut# 14 Riddle, Almeda. Anglo-American Folksong Style, Prentice-Hall, Sof (1968), 6.13 Whitfield Girls. Rackensack. Volume 2, Driftwood LP 279, LP (1972), cut#A.06 OTHER NAMES:Two Babes in the Wood; The Babes in the Woods
SOURCES: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 400, pg. 381.American Ballads and Songs, Scribners, Sof (1972/1922), p233 American Balladry from British Broadsides, Amer. Folklore Society, Bk (1957), p290 (Children in the Wood); Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc.
NOTES: "D Major. Standard. AB. Source for notated version: Strosnider (1930's). Lyrics are from the folk song Babes in the Woods." (Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc). A version of this tune collected by Bayard was sung in southwestern Pennsylvannia, beginning:
My dears, do you know, a long time ago,
Two little children whose names I don't know
Went out for to play one fine summer's day,
And were lost in the woods, so I've heard people say.
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