Lady Gay- P. Morris (VA) 1936 Wilkinson C
[My title. Two stanzas from Bronson TTCB- II, No. 27, 1962. As taken from Wilkinson's MS, version C. The Morris family is well-known in the Brown's Cove area, see also Wilkinson A.
R. Matteson 2015]
[C. Lady Gay] Wilkinson MSS., 1935-36, p. 68 (C) Sung by Polly Morris, Pirkey, Va., April 23, 1936.
Once there was a lady gay,
And children she had three;
She sent them away unto the North
To learn their grammaree.
They hadn't been gone but a very short time,
No more than three weeks and a day;
Before cold death came hastening down,
And stole the babes away.