Miller's Apprentice- Dol Small (VA) 1918 Sharp D
[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.
E. "The Miller's Apprentice." Sung by Mr. DOL SMALL at Nellysford, Va., May 23, 1918. Heptatonic. Ionian.
My father hired me to a miller,
He had no child but me;
I fell in love with a pretty girl
With a dark and rolling eye.