In Newport Town- Nora Haynes (NC) 1917 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.
In Newport Town - sung by Nora Haynes, on 2 August, 1917 in Clyde, North Carolina. Collected by Cecil J. Sharp.
In Newport Town there lived a merchant,
Who had three sons and daughter fair,
But the prettiest[1] boy they kept apart them,
He was their daughter's dearest dear.
1. usually a corruption of "prentice"