Lady Gay- Creech (KY) 1917 Sharp MS
[My title. Single stanza with music from Bronson TTCB No. 35, 1962. Sharp MSS, 3941. See Sharp's diary notes below.
R. Matteson 2015]
Sharp diary 1917 page 249. Wednesday 29 August 1917 - Pine Mountain Settlement School: Breakfast at 6. Shortly after Maud and I tramp up Greasy Creek after songs and get a goodish lot from Mrs Mary Ann Short and her mother Mrs Berry Creech.
[Lady Gay] Sung by Mrs. Berry Creech, Pine Mountain, Ky., August 29, 1917.
There was a maid and a lady gay
And children she had three
She sent them away to the North Amerikee
To learn those grammaree.