Lord Thomas & Fair Alander (Go Dig me a Grave) - Lowrimore (CA) 1945
[From: Some English and Scottish Ballads from California by Burton S. Lowrimore; California Folklore Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Apr., 1946), pp. 210-213. His notes follow.
R. Matteson 2012, 2014]
Some English and Scottish Ballads from California.-I collected the following ballads from my mother during Christmas vacation, 1945- She had learned them as a child and has never seen any of them in print nor heard them on a radio or phonograph.
B. [The following fragment is sung to the same tune as "Lord Lovel." It resembles "Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor," Child, 73D.]
Go dig me a grave both wide and deep,
And lay me down to sleep,
And put fair Alander in my arms,
And the brown girl at my feet, feet, feet,
And the brown girl at my feet.