Jimmy Randal- Campbell (VA) 1918 Sharp K
[My title. From English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians by Cecil Sharp/Karpeles 1932. Single stanza with music.
R. Matteson 2014]
K. [Jimmy Randal]- Sung by Mrs. ELLA CAMPBELL at Buena Vista, Va., May 1, 1918
Pentatonic. Mode 3.
1. What you will to your father, Jimmy Randal, my son?
What you will to your father, my own darling one?
My farm in the country, go make my bed soon,
For I'm sick at my heart and be till I die.