Bailiff's Daughter- Timmons (NC) 1945 Abrams REC
[From Abrams Collection, recording. To listen: http://omeka.library.appstate.edu/files/original/158857573218aadc2488a66ee13733c5.mp3
The Brown Collection gives no versions but the cut-off date was 1943. This is a partial transcription, the recording skips in the middle and its impossible to transcribe in places.
R. Matteson 2014]
Bailiff's Daughter -sung by Mrs. Laura Timmons of Watauga, NC on July 5, 1945.
The was a youth, a beloved youth,
And he did love her so,
. . .
. . .
But when his friends did understand
His fond and foolish mind,
They sent him off to Clarendon,
An apprentice for to [bind].
And when he seven long years
and never his love did see,
For many a kiss I've shed for grace,
While she never thought of me.
One day the maid of Islington
[record skips]
And as she walked along the high road
And her true love
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