Her Father's Own Gold- Weeks (OH) 1939 Eddy A
[My title, no title or date given. From Ballads and Songs from Ohio, 1939 Eddy, version A. This version is just a fragment, the other versions B- E are more complete. B was published in JAFL in 1922, compiled in 1917.
R. Matteson 2014]
Eddy comments: Mrs. Weeks remembers these stanzas from the singing of an old bachelor who sang to the children in her aunt's family when she was but a little girl.
2. LADY ISABEL AND THE ELF KNIGHT
(Child, No. 4)
A. Her Father's Own Gold. From Mrs. Charles Weeks, Canton, Ohio.
1. She brought him a bag of her own father's gold,
Likewise of her mother's own fee,
And two of the best horses that stood in the stall,
And there stood thirty and three.
2. She mounted on her milk-white steed,
And he on the dappled gray,
And quickly they both rode away
Three hours before it was day.
3. "Lie there, lie there, you wicked young man,
Lie there, lie there", said she,
"For six fair maids you've drowned there,
And I the seventh won't be."