Cambric Shirt- Charlotte Decker (NL) 1966 Halpert

Cambric Shirt- Charlotte Decker (NL) 1966 Halpert

[From tape Memorial University Folklore Archive, The Elfin Knight (Child)- partial transcript.

R. Matteson 2018]

Devil asks woman to make shirt, and she agrees if he will plough an acre of land for her - but he must plow it with a pig's horn and sow it with one grain of corn.

The Cambric Shirt- sung by Charlotte Decker of Parson's Pond, Great Northern Penninsula, August, 1966.

The devil came to her one night in bed,
 Blow, blow, blow the wind blow,
And this is the very words he said,
The wind do blow my [plaid awa].