Lady Gay- Sturgill (KY) 1976 REC
[From Digital Appalachia. Partial text provided. Virgil Sturgill sings to a ballad singing class at Warren Wilson College on September 27, 1976.
Listen: http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/Warren/id/1657/rec/4
R. Matteson 2015]
Lady Gay
There was a lady and a lady gay,
And children she had three.
She sent them off to the North contry,
For to learn their grammaree.
They had not been there very long,
Scarcely six month and a day,
When death,cold death came hastening along,
And stole they lives away