Lord Thomas- Schapp (OH-TN) 1937 Kirklands
[Popular Ballads Recorded in Knoxville, TN 1938 by the Kirklands- printed in Southern Folklore Quarterly, vol. II, no. 2., pages 65-80. Music and texts from Edwin Capers Kirkland and Mary Neal Kirkland, 1938.
R. Matteson 2014]
LORD THOMAS AND FAIR ANNET
(Child 73)
"Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor," was recorded July, 1937, by Mrs. Mariana Schapp, of Columbus, Ohio, whose husband was a
member of the faculty of the University of Tennessee. she learned it from Miss Katherine Carr, of Bellefontaine, Ohio. This fragment of four stanzas is closer to the Virginia variants K, L, and O,[15] than to any of the other numerous texts.
[music]
I riddle, I riddle dear mother said she,
I riddle it all in one;
Whether I should go to Lord Thomas's wedding
O I should stay at home.