Jimmie Randolph- Boone (NC) 1918 Sharp J
[My title. From English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians by Cecil Sharp/Karpeles 1932. Single stanza with music.
R. Matteson 2014]
J. [Jimmie Randolph] Sung by Mrs. SINA BOONE at Shoal Creek, Burnsville, N. C, Sept. 28, 1918
What did you have for supper, Jimmy Randolph, my son,
What did you have for supper, my last man?
Fried eels and fresh butter. Mother fix my bed soon,
For I am faint hearted and I can no longer stand.