In Jersey City- Vergie Charlton (WV) 1918 Sharp MS
[From Cecil Sharp's MSS: Single stanza with music Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) (CJS2/10/4297). Similar to the 1860s broadsides in NY and PA.
R. Matteson 2017]
[In Jersey City] A Brisk Young Lover- sung by Vergie Charlton of Lewisberg, W. Virginia on 28 May, 1918
Collector: Sharp, Cecil J.
In Jersey city where I do dwell
Is a butcher's boy I love so well.
He courted me with my life away,
O now with me he will not stay.