George Collins- Wilson (NC) pre1938 Henry C
[Fragment from: Folk Songs from the Southern Highlands; A Collection Of Traditional Folk Songs & Ballads, Collected & Edited by Mellinger Edward Henry, 1938. His notes follow.
R. Matteson 2015]
LADY ALICE
(Child, No. 85) For American texts, see Brown, p. 9; Campbell and Sharp, No. 22; Cox, No. 17; Davis, No. 25; Hudson, No. 14; Reed Smith, No. 9; Reed Smith, Ballads, No. 9; Journal, XXVIII, 151 (Perrow); XXX, 317 (Kittredge); XXXIX, 102 (Hudson); XXXII, 500 (Richardson); The Survey, New York, January 2, 1915, XXXIII, 373.
C. George Collins. Obtained from Mrs. Ewart Wilson, Pensacola, North Carolina. Mrs. Wilson knew the theme of the ballad, but could remember only two of the lines.
George Collins rode home on a winter night
And he took sick and died.