Geordie- Pease (WV-MA) pre1957 Musick

Geordie- Pease (WV-MA) pre1957 Musick

[It's hard to say what the date is but it certainly could go back 30 or 40 years to c. 1930. From: Ballads and Folksongs from West Virginia by Ruth Ann Musick in the The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 70, No. 277 (Jul. - Sep., 1957), pp. 247-261.

R. Matteson 2013]

12. "Geordie" (Geordie, Child 209) [16]

12.1. Roger W. Pease of Morgantown learned this as a boy in Massachusetts from his mother and aunt (see Ex. 18).



(1) Oh, saddle me my milk-white steed;
Oh, saddle me my pony;
For tonight I ride to London Town
To fight for the life of Geordie.

(2) Oh, Geordie stole nor cow nor calf;
His crimes were never many;
But he stole sixteen of the king's white steeds
And he sold them in Bohemy.