Daughters Three or Four- Franklin(KY) 1917 Sharp L
[My Title. From English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, Sharp/Karpeles 1932, version L, w/music. Sharp's notes follow.
R. Matteson 2014]
Notes from Sharp, 1917 edition: No. 4. The Two Sisters
Texts without tunes:—Child, No. 10.
Texts with tunes:—Christie's Traditional Ballad Airs, i., pp. 40 and 42. Journal of the Folk-Song Society, i., 253, and ii., 282. English County Songs, p. 118. Northumbrian Minstrelsy, p. 61. Child, v., pp. 411 and 412 (three tunes). "Binnorie," arranged
by Dr. Arthur Somervell. American variants:—Journal of American Folk-Lore, xviii., 130 (with tune); xviii., 130 (without tune); xix., 233.
L. [Daughters Three or Four]- Sung by Mrs. FRANKLIN at Barbourville, Knox Co., Ky., May 7, 1917;
Hexatonic (no 7th).
There was an old woman lived on the sea-shore,
Bow down, bow down,
There was an old woman lived on the sea-shore,
And thou hast bent to me,
There was an old woman lived on the sea-shore,
She had some daughters, some three or four.
And I'll be true to my love,
My love will be true to me.