House Carpenter- Morris (VA) 1935 Wilkinson MS; Bronson 60.
[My title. Single stanza with music from Wilkinson MSS., 1935-36, p. 87(A). Also Bronson's TTCB, III, 1966, No. 60. The Morris family (see also Scarborough-- Polly Morris) was a well known ballad family in the Brown's Cove region of Virginia.
R. Matteson 2013]
House Carpenter [The Daemon Lover]- Sung by Mrs. Jane Morris, Harriston, Va., October 9, 1935. m M/D
Will you forsaken your house carpenter,
And go along with me?
I will take you where the grass grows green
On the banks of the Sweet Marie.