I Wish, I Wish- Jacob Sowder (VA) 1918 Sharp MS
[Fragment with music from Cecil Sharp's MSS: Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) (CJS2/9/3150)
US adaptation of I Wish I were a maid again. Called a play song, it was apparently printed in: Sharp's "Twelve Songs for Children from the Appalachian Mountains" which I haven't seen.
R. Matteson 2017]
I Wish, I Wish- Jacob Sowder of Callaway, Virginia on 17 August, 1918 from Sharp's MSS.
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,
I wish I were a child again;
But that I ain't I never will be
Till apples grow on a willow tree.
Your gold shall rust and silver shall fly
But constant love shall never die.