Fair Charlotte
by Phillips Barry
The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 22, No. 84 (Apr. - Jun., 1909), p. 262
Journal of American Folk-Lore
NOTES AND QUERIES
FAIR CHARLOTTE- The opening lines of this American traditional ballad are, -
"Fair Charlotte lived by the mountain-side,
In a wild and lonely spot,
No dwelling was for three miles round,
Beside her father's cot."
The ballad is about a young woman who was frozen to death while riding fifteen miles in a sleigh to " a merry ball," and is no doubt based on an actual incident. In connection with a study I am making of American ballads, I should be extremely grateful to any readers of this Journal who will send me any versions of the ballad (even fragments are desirable), whether from oral
tradition, or copied from printed sources. Especially should I like information concerning the event itself.
- Phillips Barry,
33 Ball St., Boston, Mass.