In Maple City- Banner Chandley, (NC) 1916 Sharp MS
[My title. Single stanza with music from Sharp's MS. The 1932 notes English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians follow.
R. Matteson 2016]
No. 48. In Seaport Town.
Texts without tunes :—Journal of American Folk-Lore, xx. 259; xxix 168. Cox's Folk Songs of the South, p. 305 (see also further references).
Texts with tunes:—Journal of the Folk-Song Society, i. 160; ii. 42; v. 123. Miss Broadwood's Traditional Songs and Carols, p. 28. Folk Songs from Somerset, No. 12 (also published in English Folk-Songs, Selected Edition, i. 4, and One Hundred
English Folk-Songs, p. 4). Journal of American Folk-Lore, xxxv. 359.
Sharp diary 1916 page 244. Saturday 12 August 1916 - Alleghany — White Rock
Long talk with Miss Fish & Miss Bacon about Settlement & sch[ool] and work in the mountains. Packed our things early and then put them on Mr Sol Shelton’s wagon for White Rock. Went to Mrs Chandley’s about laundry & settled up to date including what we then take to her. Afterward Mr Harris & Mr Banner Chandley sang me songs.
In Maple City - sung by Banner Chandley on 12 August, 1916; Alleghany, North Carolina.
In Maple[1] city there lived a merchant
He had two sons and a daughter dear
And among them all was the prettiest[2] boy
Who was the daughter's dearest dear.
1. Naple?
2. prentice