Jim Riley- Long (VA) 1918 Sharp MS
[My title, From Bronson, No. 20. Single stanza with music. Bronson adds: Cf. with Sharp, One Hundred English Folksongs, 1916, p. 62, No. 27: "Lamkin" (Child 93).
R. Matteson 2014]
20. [Jim Riley] Lord Rendal - Sharp MSS., 4315/. Sung by Mrs. J. L. Long, Villamont, Va., June 4, 1918.
Jim Riley, Jim Riley, Jim Riley my son
Where have you been wand'ring, my dear little one?
Through bushes, through briers, I'll make my bed down,
So sick in my heart, I wants to lie down.