Little Mathy Grove- Graham (CA-OH) 1873 Robertson
[Single stanza with music, recorded by Sidney Cowell for Archive of Folk Culture- 1938, LC/AAFS, rec. No. 3814(A2). Graham sings the same verse twice and then tells when and who he learned the song from.
R. Matteson 2015]
Song transcript notes written by Sidney Robertson Cowell: Graham uses the same tune for "Mathy Grove" and "Barb'ry Allen." George Vinton Graham, vocals and guitar. (Performers). Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in San Jose, California on December 3, 1938.
Little Matthy Groves- Sung by George Vinton Graham, San Jose, Calif., December 3, 1938, who "learned it from an aunt in Ohio, c. 1873 when he was 5 years old." Collected by Sidney Robertson; Bronson comments that it is from the "Boyne Water" family.
"Lie still,lie still, you Little Mathy Grove
And keep my back from the cold.
It's nothing but my father's proud shepherd boy
A-driving his flock to the fold."