In Seaport Town- H. Smith (KY) 1917 Sharp G
[Single stanza with music from Sharp and Campbell I, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, 1917 and 1932. The 1932 notes 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.
G. In Seaport Town. Sung by Mr. HILLARD SMITH at Hindman, Knott Co., Ky., Sept. 20, 1917.
Pentatonic Mode 3.
Along at evening as she returned,
Her brothers asked her where she'd been.
You two hard-hearted deceitful villains,
For him alone you both shall swing.