Daughters Three- H. Lam (VA) 1935 Wilkinson G
[My title, none given. From Bronson, No. 58.Full text with music from the notebook of William Wilkinson who worked with Kyle Davis Jr. John Stone and Paul Clayton in the 30s writing musical transcriptions for folk songs and ballads. This is the second version taken from a member of the Lam family, see also Z. B. Lam, Wilkinson F.
R. Matteson 2014]
[Daughters Three]- Wilkinson MSS., 1935-36, pp. 20-22(G). Sung by T. Henry Lam, Elkton, Va., November 6, 1935.
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1. There was an old lady lived in the North,
Bow down.
There was an old lady lived in the North,
They both were bent to me.
There was an old lady lived in the North,
And she had daughters, one, two, three,
And I'll be true to my love,
If my love will be true to me.
2. There was a young man who came to see them,
He fell in love with the youngest one.
3, He brought the youngest one a beaver hat,
The oldest she made much of that.
4. Sister, O sister, let's walk out,
And see the ships a-sailing about.
5, As they were walking the salt sea brim,
The oldest shoved the youngest in.
-6 Sister, O sister, give me your hand,
And you may have my house and land.
7. I'll neither give you my hand nor glove,
Nor you can't have your own true love.
8. O down she sank and away she swam,
Till she came to the miller's mill dam.
9. Miller, O miller, O yonder's a swan,
Unless it is some dead woman.
10. The miller ran out with his fish hook,
To fish the fair maid out of the brook.
11. The miller got hung at his mill gate,
A-fishing for poor sister Kate.