Lord Lovel- Roberts (VA) 1918 Sharp D
[Single stanza with music. From English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians by Sharp and Campbell; Sharp/Karpeles I, 1932. Notes from the 1932 edition follow.
R. Matteson 2014]
No. 21. Lord Lovel.
Texts without tunes: — Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, No. 75. Gavin Greig's Folk-Song of the North-East, art. ii. 159. A. Williams's Folk Songs of the Upper Thames, p. 145. Cox's Folk Songs of the South, p. 78 (see further references). Journal of American Folk-Lore, xix. 283.
Texts with tunes: —Journal of the Folk-Song Society, ii. 209 ; iii. 64; vi. 31. Child, v, p. 416. Gavin Greig's Last Leaves, No. 29. C. Sharp's English Folk Songs (Selected Edition), i. 22 (also published in One Hundred English Folk-Songs, No. 26). Journal of American Folk-Lore, xviii. 291 ; xxxv. 342. Reed Smith's South
Carolina Ballads, p. 121. D. Scarborough's On the Trail of Negro Folk Songs, p. 55. Broadside, G. H. de Marsan, New York. Musical Quarterly, January 1916, p. 5. British Ballads from Maine, p. 139. Davis's Traditional Ballads of Virginia, pp. 240 and 573. McGill's Folk Songs of the Kentucky Mountains, p. 10.
Sandburg's American Songbag, p. 570.
D. Lord Lovel- Sung by Mrs. WILLIE ROBERTS at Nellysford, Va., May 23, 1918
Heptatonic. Ionian.
Where are you going, Lord Lovel, she said,
O where are you going? said she.
I am going, my lady Nancy Bell,
Strange countries for to see.