Mollie Van- Susan Moberley (KY) 1917 Sharp MS
[My title. Single stanza with music from Cecil James Sharp's MS, Maud Karpeles text. The 1932 EFSSA notes follow.
R. Matteson 2016]
1932 Notes: No. 50. Shooting of his Dear.
Texts without tunes :—Journal of American Folk-Lore, xxii. 387 ; xxxix. 136.
Texts with tunes: Journal of the Folk-Song Society, ii. 59; vii. 17. Journal of the Irish Folk-Song Society, iii. 25. Songs of the West, 2nd ed., No. 62. Folk Songs from Somerset, No. 16. Molly Ban (pronounced Van) so fair/ Petrie's Collection of Irish Music, Nos. 724 and 1171 (tunes only). Joyce's Ancient Irish Music, p. 20. Journal of American Folk-Lore, xxx. 358, Cox's Folk Songs of the South, pp. 339 (see also further references) and 529.
[Mollie Van] (Shooting Of His Dear) sung by Susan Moberley, August 20, 1917 in Oneida Kentucky. Collector by Cecil J. Sharp.
Come all you young people who handle a gun
I've a story to tell you concerning Mollie Van.