Lord Thomas- Graham (CA) 1939 Cowell REC
[ From California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties; George Vinton Graham, vocals and guitar.
Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in San Jose, California on August 16, 1939.
Cowell's notes follow. This is a ballad recreation based on traditional stanzas.
R. Matteson 2014]
Dust jacket notes inscribed by Sidney Robertson Cowell: One verse of the song is on AFS 3374 A1; others follow on AFS 3374A2. "Several verses owe much to Mr. Graham's personal reconstruction." Forms part of a group of field materials documenting George Vinton Graham performing Anglo-American songs on October 12, 1938, December 3 and 7, 1938, July 9, 1939, and August 16, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in San Jose, California.
Lord Thomas
Oh father dear lord Thomas said,
Oh can't you very well see,
I have more love in this little finger,
Than your whole body.
The brown girl she has money
And Fair Eleanor she has none,
Therefore I charge you on my blessing,
To bring the brown girl home.
Oh mother dear, Fair Eleanor cried
Lord Thomas will wed the brown girl,
But I know that he loves me.
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