Lord Thomas- Mance Lipscomb (TX) c.1964 REC
[From You Got To Reap What You Sow (1993) Arhoolie CD 398 previously recorded c. 1964. I've started transcribing Lipscomb's blues version of Lord Thomas (the first two stanzas are correct). Clearly he didn't know much of the ballad, and what he did know wasn't right- still his imporvisational acappella version is awesome.
Lipscomb (April 9, 1895 – January 30, 1976) was born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas.
R. Matteson 2014]
Mance Lipscomb - You Got To Reap What You Sow (1993) Arhoolie CD 398 c. 1964
1. Lord Thomas he wore, some mighty fine clothes
And the waiters they dressed in green,
Well the waiters they dressed in green,
And every city, that they walked through,
They taken him, taken him to be some queen.
2. Lord Thomas he walked that lonesome road
He did not walk so far,
He did not walk so far,
He turned back and he said to the lady's mother,
"I want, I want to marry your daughter."
3. The lady said back, back to him,
My daughter is too young
My daughter is too young
To be misleaded, to be misleaded,
4. Oh let her be young or let her be old,
I come to ask you, oh one kind favor,
Please please. . .