How do you like your bed?- Hensley (KY) 1917 Sharp
[My abbreviated title. Single stanza with music from Sharp MSS., 3872. Also Bronson No. 53 and he comments: The last phrase is marked doubtful by Sharp in his MS. Cf. the preceding variant for the usual ending.
R. Matteson 2015]
Sharp diary 1917 page 237. Friday 17 August 1917 - Oneida, Kentucky
Breakfast at 5.30! and then start off, cross Goose Creek in a boat about 2 miles down the river and call on a Mr Geo Brewer, a garrulous old man of 70 who regales us with War Songs made by his father, but who knows nothing folk. Find people about here giving up folk-singing very much like the people about Manchester. Call on Mrs and her daughter Mrs Dora Robertson, nice people who give us dinner but utterly outside the folk- cult. Then to Mrs Sophie Annie Hensley and her daughter from whom we get good things including Johnnie Scot. On our return have to wait an hour or more to get ferried across Goose Creek! In the evening I address the students on the Campus and sing them many songs which seems to please everyone very much. Some of the students must surely know a good many songs.
How do you like your bed?- Sung by Mrs. Sophie Annie Hensley, Oneida, Ky., August 17, 1917.
How do you like your bed and pillow
How do you like Your sheet?
And how do You like this fair, pretty maid
That lies in y[ou]r arms asleep?