Miller's Apprentice- Delie Knuckles (KY) 1917 Sharp C
[Single stanza with music. From: English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians Collected by Cecil J. Sharp and Olive Dame Campbell. Edited by Maud Karpeles; Volume I, 1932. The 1932 edition notes follow.
R Matteson 2016]
No. 71. The Miller's Apprentice or The Oxford Tragedy
Texts without tunes :—W. R. Mackenzie's Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia, No. 115. Cox's Folk Songs from the South, p. 311 (see also further references). Journal of American Folk-Lore, xxxix. 125.
Texts with tunes :—Journal of the Folk-Song Society, vii. 23 and 44. Version E is closely allied to the English tune, which now is a popular hymn in the English Hymnal.
C. "The Miller's Apprentice." Sung by Mrs. DELIE KNUCKLES at Barbourville, Knox Co., Ky., May 18, 1917. Tonic, probably F. Pentatonic. Mode 2 (no 4th).
In a close town, where I did dwell,
I owned one fairy[1] mill,
And there I spied a milk fond girl
With dark and rolling eyes.
1. foundry