Oxford Girl- Lockie Wiseman (KY) 1917 Sharp MS

Oxford Girl- Lockie Wiseman (KY) 1917 Sharp MS

[Single stanza with music- Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) (CJS2/10/3767). This is the given title although it is clearly wrong.

R. Matteson 2016]

The Oxford Girl- Sung by Lockie Wiseman of Berea, Kentucky  on 31 May, 1917. Collector: Sharp, Cecil J.

My tender parents they brought me up,
Provided for me a will[1],
'Twas in the city of Lexington,
They placed me at a mill.

1. Provided for me well,