Johnnie Randall- Pease (WV) 1957 JAF Musick A
[The first of two versions by Musick, which has the Scotch "doon" at the end of each stanza. Taken from Ballads and Folksongs from West Virginia by Ruth Ann Musick; The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 70, No. 277 (Jul. - Sep., 1957), pp. 247-261.
R. Matteson 2014]
3. "Johnnie Randall" (Lord Randall, Child 12) [4]
3.1. Contributed by Mrs. Louise McNeill Pease, who learned it in Pocahontas County (see Ex. 5); only the first verse is included here.
(1) "Where have you been, Johnnie Randall, my son?
Where have you been, my own dearest one?"
"I've been to my sweetheart's; Mother, make my bed doon;
For I am faint hearted, and I fain would lie doon."