House Carpenter- Patrick (KY) 1917 Sharp MS
[A single verse with music from Sharp's MS, Bronson 1, no title (Sharp used "The Daemon Lover" as his generic title). This verse is found in Child 74. Sharp's diary entry follow.
R. Matteson 2013]
Sharp diary 1917 page 234. Tuesday 14 August 1917 - Manchester
Maud not very well. This place is horribly insanitary and I am nervous about her. We go however to Goose Creek again, try Mrs Cis Jones with some result and then tramp 2 or 3 miles further on after the widow Mrs Polly Patrick. She sings some fairly good ones but owns she has not sung love songs for 25 years — "just like others about here" she adds ominously. Call on the Samples on our way back and at their suggestion on Mrs Cis Jones who they tell me used to sing Lamkin. She promises to study it and try to remember it for us. A very nice woman although an adherent of the Holiness sect. I am better — nights have been warmer, if days also — but I have a nasty hacking cough, throat rather than chest.
House Carpenter- Sung by Mrs. Polly Patrick, Hart's Creek, KY August 14, 1917
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She dressed herself in the finest of silk
Put on a bonnet of green
And every town that she passed through
They taken her to be some queen.