Pretty Little Polly- N. Richards (VA) 1918 Sharp S
[My title. Single stanza with music from English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians; Volume I; 1917 and 1932. Collected by Cecil J. Sharp and Olive Dame Campbell. Edited by Maud Karpeles. The 1932 notes follow.
Single stanza US standard text. Sharp's Diary:
R. Matteson 2016]
No. 49. The Cruel Ship's Carpenter (1932 notes)
Texts without tunes:—Broadsides by Pitts, Jackson & Son, and Bloomer (Birmingham). Ashton's A Century of Ballads, p. 101.
Texts with tunes :—Christie's Traditional Ballad Airs, ii. 99. Journal of the Folk-Song Society, i. 172. Folk Songs from Somerset, No. 83 (published also in English Folk Songs, Selected Edition, i. 4, and One Hundred English Folk-Songs, p. 4). Cox's Folk Songs of the South , pp. 308 (see also further references) and 528. Wyman and Brockway's Twenty Kentucky Mountain Songs, p. 110, and Lonesome Tunes, p. 79. Journal of American Folk-Lore, xx. 262.
S. [Pretty Little Polly] Sung by Miss NAOMI RICHARDS at St. Peter's School, Callaway, Va., Aug. 15, 1918
Hexatonic (no 6th).
Led her over mountains and valleys so deep,
Led her over mountains and valleys so deep,
Led her over mountains and valleys so deep,
When pretty little Polly began to weep.