Balance Unto Me- Furlow (MD) 1952 Matteson MS
[Single stanza with music, no place mentioned in MS. From a manuscript in the collection of Maurice Matteson- apparently this was collected in Frostburg, Maryland in 1952 shortly before they moved to Beaufort, South Carolina. I only have a few ballads in his MS, I assume there are more, maybe at the University of South Carolina.
R. Matteson 2014]
Balance Unto Me- sung by Thomas Furlow; (Frostburg , MD) June 3, 1952.
1. There was an old woman, lived on the sea shore,
Balance unto me;
There was an old woman, lived on the sea shore,
And she had daughters three and four,
And I'll be true to my love--if my love is true to me.