Lord Arnold's Castle- Atwood (MI) 1937 Gardner C
[One stanza fragment from: Ballads and Songs of Southern Michigan, p. 314 by Emelyn Elizabeth Gardner and Geraldine Jencks Chickering; 1939. Their notes follow.
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127 LAMKIN (Child, No. 93)
Michigan A is so fragmentary that it is difficult to tell which of the Child versions (II, 320-342) it most resembles. In only two Child versions, E and W, and in no other American version noted, does Lamkin construct an entrance for himself. It is notable that in Michigan B the lady is not actually murdered, nor is Lamkin punished, as he is in most other texts, by hanging, burning, or boiling in a pot full of lead. For additional texts see Barry, Eckstorm, and Smyth, pp. 200--06; Davis, pp. 354-359; Fuson, pp. 71-72 [not in Fuson]; Henry, JAFL, XLIV, 61-63; Mary Ella Leather, The FolJ-Lore of Herefordshire (London, 1912), pp. 199-200; Sharp, I, 201-207; Tolman, JAFL, XXIX, 162-164; and Tolman and Eddy, JAFL, XXXV, 344.
C. Lord Arnold's Castle- Sung by Mr. Charles Atwood, Greenville, 1937. Mr. Atwood remembered hearing the song when he was a boy, but could sing only a fragment, which is practically identical with stanza 1 of version A.
1 False Lamkin was as good a mason
As ever laid a stone;
He built Lord Arnold's castle,
And the lord paid him none.[1]
1. text from version A