Daughters Three- Lam (VA) 1935 Wilkinson F
[My title, none given. From Bronson, No. 57. Single stanza with music from the notebook of William Wilkinson who worked with Kyle Davis Jr. in the 30s writing musical transcriptions for folk songs and ballads.
R. Matteson 2014]
[Daughters Three] - Wilkinson MSS., 1935-36, p. 19(F). Sung by Z.B. Lam, Standardsville, Va., November 3, 1935. m AE/D
There was an old man who lived in the North,
Bow down,
There was an old man who lived in the North,
The bow* is bent to me.
There was an old man who lived in the North,
He had some daughters, one, two, three.
And I'll be true to my love
If my love will be true to me.
* The singer pronounced the word with long o.