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Recordings & Info 277. Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin

[A wether is a male sheep, normally a castrated male sheep, less aggressive than a ram.]

CONTENTS:

 1) Alternative Titles
 2) Traditional Ballad Index 
 3) Child Collection Index
 4) Excerpt from The British Traditional Ballad in North America by Tristram Coffin 1950, from the section A Critical Biographical Study of the Traditional Ballads of North America
 5) "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" or "Old Dandoo" (Child 277) by Mark Gelber
 6) Child 277: Ballad and Tale
 7) Folk Index (7 listings)
    
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
  1) Roud No. 117:  Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin  (278 Listings)
  2) A Merry Jeste of a Shrewde and Curst Wyfe- pre 1575 (two editions)
  3) Changes Suffered by "Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin

Alternate Titles

Dan Doo
Cooper of Fife
Tinna Clinnama Clinchama Clingo
Bandoo
Dandoo
Dan-Doodle-Dan
Dan-you
Dindo-Dan
Gentle Virginia
Jenny Flow Gentle Rosemary
Old Man Come in From His Plow
Robin He's Gone to the Woods
Sweet Robin
The Old Man Who Lived in the West
The Old Sheepskin
The Scolding  Wife
The Wee Cooper o' Fife
The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin
Gentle Fair Jenny
Ruggleton's Daughter of Iero
As the Dew Flies Over the Green Valley
Nickety Nackety
Kitty Lorn
Kitty Alone
Daughter of Peggy-O
I Bought My Wife Two Cows and a Steer;
Dan You
Hollin Green Hollin
The Cooper o' Fife
Jennifer, Jenny
The Dew Flies Over the Green Valley
Gently, Jinny, Fair Rosemary
The Green Valley
While the Dew Flies Over the Green Valley
Old Wetherskin
Gentle Fair Jenny
Jenny Fair Gentle Rosemarie
The Wether's   Skin
Dan   Dhu; Dan-doo; There was an Old   Man   Who   Lived   Out   West; Old   Dandoo; Robertin   Tush; Hobblety   Bobblety How Now; Robin-a-Thrush; Ti   Risslety   Rosslety; John   Dobber; Danyou; Wife   Wrapped in a Wether   Skin; Wife   Wrapped in a Wether's   Skin; The Old   Wether's   Skin
 

Traditional Ballad Index:  Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin, The [Child 277]

DESCRIPTION: A craftsman has married a wife above his station. She, being of good birth, refuses to do housework. Since she is gentle, he cannot beat her -- but he covers her in a sheepskin, thrashes THAT, and causes her to start working
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803
KEYWORDS: humorous wife abuse husband nobility
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(South,West),Scotland(Aber,Bord) Canada(Mar) Ireland US(Ap,MA,MW,NE,SE,So)
REFERENCES: (40 citations)
Child 277, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (5 texts)
Bronson 277, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (63 versions)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 322-325, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #33}
Belden, pp. 92-94, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #21}
Randolph 35, "Dan-Doo" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #51}
Flanders/Brown, pp. 222-225, "Cooper of Fife," "The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {Bronson's #17, #9}
Flanders/Olney, pp. 221-222, "Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #45}
Flanders-Ancient4, pp. 76-98, "The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin" (9 texts plus 5 fragments, 9 tunes) {D=Bronson's #17, J=#45, M=#9}
Fowke/MacMillan 79, "Jenny Go Gentle" (1 text, 1 tune)
Davis-Ballads 45, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (12 texts, several quite fragmentary, 2 tunes entitled "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin," "The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin or Dandoo")  {Bronson's #38, #50}
Davis-More 39, pp. 305-315, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (5 texts, 2 tunes)
BrownII 44, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (2 texts plus 2 excerpts)
Hudson 23, p. 123, "The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin" (1 text)
Brewster 23, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (3 texts, though two are short)
Peters, pp. 170-171, "Dan Doo" (1 text,1 tune)
Creighton/Senior, pp. 94-95, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #24}
Leach, pp. 658-660, "The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin" (3 texts)
McNeil-SFB2, pp. 58-63, "The Wife in Wether's Skin -- Dandoo!"; "Geely Don Mac Kling Go" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Ford-Vagabond, pp. 192-194, "The Wee Cooper o' Fife" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #5}
Greig #122, pp. 1-2, "The Wife in the Wether's Skin" (1 text)
GreigDuncan7 1282, "The Wife in the Wether's Skin" (5 texts plus a single verse on p. 501, 4 tunes) {A=Bronson's #5, C=#13, D=#16, E=#3}
Friedman, p. 449, "The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin" (2 texts)
Warner 44, "The Old Wether's Skin"  {Bronson's #29}; 103, "Dan Doo" (2 texts, 2 tunes) {cf. Bronson's 42a/b, from the same informant (Frank Proffitt) but not quite the same in text or tune}
FSCatskills 136, "Tinna Clinnama Clinchama Clingo" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
SharpAp 39, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (5 texts, 5 tunes) {Bronson's #38, #43, #25, #31, #44}
Ritchie-Southern, p. 70, "Gentle Fair Jenny" (1 text, 1 tune, with a chorus perhaps from "Riddles Wisely Expounded," and a text which may well mix this with "The Holly Twig" [Laws Q6]; I thought seriously about filing it there) {Bronson's #32}
Lomax-FSNA 85, "Gentle Fair Jenny" (1 text, 1 tune, claiming to be from Jean Ritchie, but Lomax does not cite a recording and the song bears very little resemblance in text or tune to Ritche's recorded version)
Sharp-100E 70, "Ruggleton's Daughter of Iero" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #36}
Niles 59, "The Unwilling Bride" (1 text, 1 tune, possibly of this ballad but, in my opinion, more likely a form of "The Holly Twig" [Laws Q6])
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 23, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #43}
Chase, pp. 122-123, "Nickety Nackety" (1 text, 1 tune)
DBuchan 63, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (1 text)
JHCox 29, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (5 texts)
JHCoxIIA, #13A-C, pp. 57-60, "The Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin," "Dandoo" (3 texts, 1 tune, but the "B" text omits the beating and has the husband run away; it may well be a version of "Risselty, Rosselty, Now, Now, Now" although it might alternately have mixed with "Devilish Mary" [Laws Q4] or something like it) {Bronson's #26}
Abrahams/Foss, pp. 167-169, "The Wife in Wether's Skin -- Dandoo!" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #46}
LPound-ABS, 6, pp. 16-17, "The Wife Wrapped in a Wether's Skin"; pp. 17-18, "Dandoo" (2 texts)
Darling-NAS, pp. 80-81, "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 174, "The Wee Cooper Of Fife" (2 texts)
DT 277, COOPFIFE DANDOO*
ADDITIONAL: Alexander Whitelaw, A Book of Scottish Song (Glasgow, 1845), pp. 333-334, "The Cooper of Fife'
Roud #117
RECORDINGS:
Warde Ford, "As the Dew Flies Over the Green Valley" (AFS 4197 B1, 1938; tr.; in AMMEM/Cowell) {Bronson's #19a; cf. 18, 19b}
Frank Proffitt, "Dan Doo" (on Proffitt03) {Bronson's #42a/b}
Jean Ritchie, "Gentle Fair Jenny" (on JRitchie02) {Bronson's #32}
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Risselty, Rosselty, Now, Now, Now" (theme, plot, lyrics)
cf. "The Holly Twig" [Laws Q6] (plot)
cf. "The Wicked Wife o' Fife" (theme)
cf. "The Daughter of Peggy-O" (plot)
cf. "The Wife Who Wouldn't Spin Tow" (theme)
cf. "Upside Down" (theme)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Cooper of Fife
The Wee Cooper of Fife
Bandoo
Gentle Virginia
Kitty Lorn
Kitty Alone
Dan-you
The Old Man Who Lived in the West
NOTES: It has been speculated (see, e.g., Warner) that this ballad inspired Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." Evidence is, of course, completely lacking, though some Shakespeare authorities also mention the connection. The piece probably does go back to Elizabethan times; according to J. C. Holt, _Robin Hood_, revised edition, Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 140, one Robert Langham heard an entertainment in July 1575 at the Earl of Leicester's palace of Kenilworth which featured the "Wife Wrapped in Wether's Skin."
Barry et al have an even stranger theory, that this song, which occasionally has the sort  of "plant refrain" we know best from "Riddles Wisely Expounded" and "The Elfin Knight," is actually a description of an exorcism, in which the herbs and the beating both play a part!
American forms of this ballad are often much simplified, omitting, e.g., the mention of the wife's noble origin and/or the sheepskin. Ritchie's version is typical of this; such texts are hard to distinguish from degenerate forms of "The Holly Twig" [Laws Q6]. (Pound's "I Bought Me a Wife" seems almost to be mixed with "The Swapping Song.")
Typical of these degenerate forms is "Risselty, Rosselty, Now, Now, Now," which we originally lumped with this song, but which we have now split off. For full details on how to separate them, see the notes to "Risselty, Rosselty." The basic distinction is that, in "The Wife Wrapt," he beats her; in "Risselty, Rosselty," he merely complains. But there are other indications which can be used for fragments. - RBW, (PJS)
To add to the confusion, there is a nursery song, apparently from Halliwell, beginning "I married a wife by the light of the moon, A tidy housewife, a tidy one." This is not either "The Wife Wrapt" or "Risselty-Rosselty," but it details the wife's strange and "slovenly" habits. And several lines of it, including the first, are found in various versions of Child 277, including e.g. the "B" version in Flanders-Ancient. - RBW

 

Excerpt from The British Traditional Ballad in North America

by Tristram Coffin 1950, from the section A Critical Biographical Study of the Traditional Ballads of North America

277. THE WIFE WRAPT IN WETHER'S SKIN

Texts: Barry, Brit Bids Me, 322 / Bdden, Mo F-S, 92 / Brewster, Bids Sgs 2nd, 151 /  Brown Coll / Bull Tenn FLS, VIII, #3, 74 / Child, V, 304 / Cox, F-S South, 1 59 / Cox, Trd  BU W V&, 46 / Cox, W. Va. School Journal and Educator, XLV, 92 / Davis, Trd Bid Va, 497 /  Downes and Siegmeister, Treasry Am Sg, 226 / Flanders, Garl Gn Mt Sg, 84 / Flanders, Vt  F-S Bids, 222, 224 / Focus, V, 280 / Gordon, F-S Am, 89 / Haun, Cocke Cnty, 78 / Henry, F-S  So Hgbldsy 125 / Hudson, F-S Miss, 123 / Hudson, F-T Miss, 12 / Hudson, Spec Miss F-L,  #21 / JAFL, VII, 253 ; XIX, 298 ; XXX, 328 ; XXXIX, 109 ; XLVIII, 309 ; LVT, 103 / N.r.
Times Mgz, i S '28 / Pound, Am Bids Sgs, 16 / Randolph, Oz F-S, I, 187 / Ring, NE F-S,  8 / SharpC, Eng F-S So Aplcbns, #33 / SharpK, Eng F-S So Aplcbns, I, 271 / Shearin and  Combs, Ky Syllabus, 8 / SFLQ, XIII, 172 / Smith and Rufty, Am Antb Old Wrld Bids, 49 /  Fa FLS Butt, #s 4, 5, 7 10. Korson, Pa Sgs Lgds, 41,

Local Titles: Bandoo, Dandoo, Dan-Doodle-Dan, Dan-you, Dindo-Dan, Gentle Virginia,  Jenny Flow Gentle Rosemary, Old Man Come in From His Plow, Robin He's Gone to the Woods, Sweet Robin, The Old Man Who Lived in the West, The Old Sheepskin, The Scolding  Wife, The Wee Cooper o' Fife, The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin.

Story Types: A: A man marries a girl who is too proud or too shrewish to work. When he returns from the fields at evening, she will not give him his  supper. To reform her, he lolls a sheep, cuts a rod, and beats her after wrapping her in the sheepskin, a device which frees him of responsibility.  When she threatens to tell her family, he reminds her that he was only tanning the hide. She reforms completely.

Examples: Barry (A); Child (F); Davis (A); Flanders, Vt F-S Bids, 222.

B: Certain West Virginia versions mention the old man's running away in the end. The Cox, F-S South, C version has four stanzas of nonsense inserted about the old man's running to his father and saying his wife has lice. All omit the bringing home of the bride.

Examples: Cox, F-S South (A, B, C).

C: The "wether's skin" has been forgotten in some texts, and a man merely beats his wife and reforms her.

Examples: Cox, F-S South (E).

Discussion: Barry, Brit Bids Me, 325 states that "Child F may be a possible intermediary between the earlier English texts and the later  American". Whether this belief is true or not, the Child version does seem to  me to tell the complete American story, and I have therefore used it as a  model for Story Type A. As none of the British Child texts include the man's  coming home from his plowing and asking for supper, some of the American  texts omit this feature also. On the other hand, other American texts that I  have grouped in Type A as well, omit the bringing home of the new bride  who will not work and begin the story with the husband's return from the  fields. Still other American texts can be found which include both opening scenes. See the examples listed under Type A. Types B and C are, of course, degenerations of this material, one through expansion, the other through loss.

Like the story, the refrains of this ballad are varied and change place and character frequently. Belden, Mo F-S, 92, notes that two general divisions may be made with respect to these refrains: the "dandoo-clish ma dingo" types of the South and Midwest, and the "rosemary-thyme" types of the South and Northeast which probably have been borrowed from The Elfin Knight (Child 2). The "rosemary-thyme" lines may derive from the old plant burden, "juniper, gentian, and rosemary", which can be found rationalized to proper names in Child F and Barry, op. cit., A and B and which has created a new title for the song. See Cox, F-S South, 162.

The ballad and its developments are discussed in some detail by William H. Jansen in HFLQ, IV, #3, 41. He divides the American tradition much  in the fashion of Belden, and notes that there is no reform of the wife in the  Dandoo texts.

Child, V, 104 states that the ballad is, in all likelihood, derived from the traditional tale, The Wife Lapped in MorreVs Skin, which he summarizes.  The story may have blended with another tale, however, before the present version developed. Lucy Broadwood, JFSS, II, 1215, in a note on plant burdens states that plants were regarded as protection against demons and
when a demon vanished the burden often remained. In that case, and providing the plant refrain has not been recently borrowed by the ballad, the wife may have originally had evil spirits, a feature which was later rationalized to her being too proud of kin or too shrewish by nature to work.

The Brewster, Bids Sgs Ind, A version has almost lost the story, and, instead of the husband's rationalization of his deed at the end, has the cliche,  "if you want any more, you can sing it yourself". The JAFL, LVI, 103  fragment may not be from Child 277.

"The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" or "Old Dandoo" (Child 277)

by Mark Gelber
 Western Folklore, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Oct., 1963), p. 273

"The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" or "Old Dandoo" (Child 277).- A story entitled "The Lazy Leather" appears in The Fairy Tale Tree edited by Vladislav Stanovsky and Jan Kolibal and printed in Czechoslovakia (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, copyright 1961 by Artia, pp. 240-241). This collection of folk tales includes "more than one hundred and eighty tales from over fifty different countries."

In "The Lazy Leather," a young man offers to marry a girl; but her parents warn him that she is lazy. He answers, "Oh no, never fear! I've got a magic piece of leather at home and that will teach her, you'll see." The parents being satisfied that their son-in-law would not beat their daughter, arrange the wedding. The wife proves to be as lazy as ever (W1113). After she has failed to "cook the lunch" and "knit some stockings," the husband sends her to the loft to fetch the old piece of goat skin. He places the skin on his wife's back and beats it with a stick. After two successive beatings the wife becomes industrious. The worried parents are pleased because their son-in-law has reformed their daughter with only an old piece of goat skin. This story parallels Child 277 in which a farmer beats his lazy wife by tanning his sheepskin while it is on her back. The editors' only note on "The Lazy Leather" states that it has been translated from an Italian source. What is the specific Italian source; and what are other analogues? (A different method of indirectly punishing a lazy wife is listed in Stith Thompson, Motif-Index of Folk Literature, W111.32: the lazy wife must hold the cat and get scratched while the animal is beaten by the husband.)

MARK GELBER
University of California, Los Angeles

Child 277: Ballad and Tale

by Jan Harold Brunvand
 Western Folklore, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Apr., 1964), pp. 117-118

Child 277: Ballad and Tale.-The question raised by Mark Gelber ("Notes and Queries," WF, XXII [October, 1963], 273) about the relationship of "The Wife Wrapti n Wether'sS kin" (Child 277) to similar prose narratives is one which I took up in detail in my Ph.D. dissertation on tales about taming shrewish wives.[1]

Aarne-Thompson T ypes 901, The Taming of the Shrew, and 1370, The Lazy Cat (Motif W111.32), both describe a husband w ho cures h is bad wife by pretending to administer irrational punishment to a recalcitrant animal.  These two stories, together with several minor types, constitute a complex of Indo-European folk tales (some appearing in ballads and literary versions) which are linked in theme, and which share a number of attendant motifs. I studied more than four hundred texts from thirty different nations; sev- enty-two of these were of Type 1370, either separate or in combination with other types, from seventeen nations. Type 1370 appears in three distinct subtypes: a "cat-beaten" form (39 versions; 14 countries), a "hide-beaten" form (17 versions; 8 countries), and an "object-beaten" form (16 versions; 9 countries).' My analysis of the traits and distribution of these subtypes suggested that the object beaten on the wife's back was an original trait which had possibly been influenced by "cat-versions" of Type 901. Type 1370 seems to have originated in southern Europe before the Middle Ages and disseminated northwards. The "hide- beaten" subtype is thinly distributed in southern Europe, but strongly represented in German, Dutch, and English popular literature from the sixteenth century and later.

Child's theory that "The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" was based on an English popular printed version is contradicted by the close similarity of the ballad to folk tale texts, such as that which Mr. Gelber has found. I had not previously known of an Italian version of Type 1370, although the story is known in Greece, Roumania, Yugoslavia, Spain, and France. The text which Gelber summarized, if indeed it is Italian, conforms both by its location and content to the general hypotheses outlined above. The interested reader may find further discussion of these matters in my dissertation and in an article forthcoming in Shakespeare Quarterly.

JAN HAROLD BRUNVAND
University of Idaho

Footnotes:

1 "The Taming of the Shrew: A Comparative Study of Oral and Literary Versions" (unpub. diss. Indiana University,B loomington: 1961). See chapter VI, pp. 352-380.
2 The revised Types of the Folktale groups references to all three subtypes under Type 1370 (including Child 277) without specifying their differences. Following the suggestions of my study, which was still in progress at the time his revision was being completed, Dr. Thompson cross- referenced Types 1370 and 901.
 

Folk Index: Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin [Ch 277/Sh 39]

Rt - Old Man Who Lived in the West; Rissolty, Rossolty; Green Valley; Wee Cooper of Fife
At - Bandoo ; Gentle Virginia ; Dindo-Dan
Friedman, Albert B. (ed.) / Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-S, Viking, sof (1963/1957), p449 [1850s]
Friedman, Albert B. (ed.) / Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-S, Viking, sof (1963/1957), p450 [1810ca]
Wells, Evelyn Kendrick (ed.) / The Ballad Tree, Ronald, Bk (1950), p121
Leach, MacEdward / The Ballad Book, Harper & Row, Bk (1955), p659
Leach, MacEdward / The Ballad Book, Harper & Row, Bk (1955), p660B [1844]
Leach, MacEdward / The Ballad Book, Harper & Row, Bk (1955), p660C
Barlow, Susie S.. Hubbard, Lester A. / Ballads and Songs from Utah, Univ. of Utah, Bk (1961), p 38/# 16A [1948/10/18] (Jennie Fair Gentle Rosemarie)
Barnett, Wally/Wallie. Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p159/# 29A [1915]
Byrd, Ernest. McNeil, W. K. (ed.) / Southern Folk Ballads, Vol 2, August House, Sof (1988), p 58 [1962] (Wife in Wethers Skin - Dandoo!)
Byrd, Ernest. Abrahams, Roger; & George Foss / Anglo-American Folksong Style, Prentice-Hall, Sof (1968), 9-1 [1962] (Wife in Wethers Skin - Dandoo!)
Campbell, Olive Dame. Sharp, Cecil & Maude Karpeles (eds.) / Eighty English Folk Songs from th, MIT Press, Sof (1968), p 47 [1917ca]
Case, Eva Warner. Pound, Louise (ed.) / American Ballads and Songs, Scribner, Sof (1972/1922), p 16/# 6A [1916/1890]
Chisholm, N. B.. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p271/# 39A [1916/09/21]
Courtney, Miss. Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p160/# 29B [1918/08/08]
Cutlip, B. C.. Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p162/# 29D [1921/08] (Bandoo)
Dunagan, Margaret. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p272/# 39C [1917/09/09]
Dyer-Bennet, Richard. Folk Songs, Remington RLP-199-34, LP (1951), trk# A.05 (Wife Wrapt in Sheepskin)
Esary, Logan. Cox, John Harrington(ed.) / Traditional Ballads Mainly from West Virgini, WPA, Bk (1939), 13C [1917ca] (Dandoo)
Hindman School Children. Cox, John Harrington(ed.) / Traditional Ballads Mainly from West Virgini, WPA, Bk (1939), 13A [1923ca]
Howard, Etta. Niles, John Jacob / Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles, Bramhall House, Bk (1961), p310/N 59 [1930s] (Unwilling Bride)
Jepson, James. Hubbard, Lester A. / Ballads and Songs from Utah, Univ. of Utah, Bk (1961), p 39/# 16B
Johnson, Bertie (Miss). Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p161/# 29C [1916/04/27] (Dandoo)
Johnson, Jack. It's Just the Same Today, Tennessee Folklore Soc. TFC 108, LP (198?), trk# 14 [1947] (Dan Doo)
Kelly, Polly Ann. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p273/# 39D [1917/09/20]
Large, Mary. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p271/# 39B [1916/06]
Marks, Phyllis. Folksongs and Ballads, Vol 2. Phyllis Marks, Augusta Heritage AHR 008, Cas (1991), trk# 1.02 (Dandoo)
Miller, Florence. Cox, John Harrington (ed.) / Folk-Songs of the South, Dover, Sof (1967/1925), p162/# 29E [1919] (Gentle Virginia)
Pace, Eliza. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p274/# 39E [1917/10/01]
Payne, Frank. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p187/# 35 [1933/07/29] (Dan Doo)
Prevost, Louis. Flanders, Helen H. & George Brown / Vermont Folk Songs and Ballads, Folklore Associates, Bk (1968/1931), p224 [1930/11]
Rogers, C. N.. Cox, John Harrington(ed.) / Traditional Ballads Mainly from West Virgini, WPA, Bk (1939), 13B [1926ca]
Rowe, Mrs. Foster. Moore, Ethel & Chauncey (ed.) / Ballads and Folk Songs of the Southwest, Univ. of Okla, Bk (1964), p125/# 52 [1940s] (Dandoo)
Salswell, Angela. Morris, Alton C. / Folksongs of Florida, Univ. Florida, Bk (1950), p322/#172 [1934-39]
Seeger, Peggy. American Folksongs for Banjo, Folk Lyric FL 114, LP (195?), trk# B.01 (Dandoo)
Sexson, J. J.. Pound, Louise (ed.) / American Ballads and Songs, Scribner, Sof (1972/1922), p 17/# 6B [1917] (Dandoo)
Stevenson, Nancy McCuddy. McNeil, W. K. (ed.) / Southern Folk Ballads, Vol 2, August House, Sof (1988), p 61 [1953-55] (Geely Don Mac Klingo)
Van Wagner, Etson. Cazden, Norman, et.al. / Folk Songs of the Catskills, SUNY Press, sof (1982), p504/#136 [1940s] (Tinna Clinnama Clinchama Clingo)
Warner, Frank. Our Singing Heritage. Vol III, Elektra EKL 153, LP (1958), trk# A.04 (Dan Doo)
West, Hedy. Old Times and Hard Times, Folk Legacy FSA 032, LP (1967), trk# A.01

The Old Man Who Lived in the West [Ch 277]

Rt - Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin
Baker, Lawrence. I'm Old But I'm Awfully Tough, MFFA 1001, LP (1977), trk# 26 [1975-76]
Hicks, Dee. Hicks Family. A Cumberland Singing Tradition, Tennessee Folklore Soc. TFS 104, LP (1982), trk# 2 [1979/10] (There Was an Old Man Who Lived in the West)
Spiller, Charles. Williams, R. Vaughan; & A. L. Lloyd (eds.) / Penguin Book of English Fol, Penguin, Sof (1959), p 29 [1908] (Daughter of Peggy, O)
West, Hedy. Hedy West. Vol. 2, Vanguard VRS 9162, LP (1964), trk# 9 (Little Old Man Lived Out West)

Rissolty, Rossolty [Ch 277]

Rt - Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin
Beall, Pamela; and Susan Nipp / Wee Sing Silly Songs, Price/Stern/Sloan, Sof (1986), p26 (Risseldy, Rosseldy)
Bundy Family. Sorrels, Rosalie (ed.) / Way Out in Idaho, Confluence, Sof (1991), p208 [1980s] (Rissity Rassity)
Case, Clyde. Folksongs and Ballads, Vol 4, Augusta Heritage AHR 010, Cas (1992), trk# A.03 [1991/05] (Nickety, Nackety)
Child, Marilyn; & Glenn Yarborough. Marilyn Child - Glenn Yarborough Sing Folk Songs, Elektra EKL 143, LP (1958), trk# A.07 (Nickety, Nackety)
Denoon, Ray R.. I'm On My Journey Home; Vocal Styles & Resources in Folk Music, New World NW 223, LP (1978), trk# A.03b [1936]
Denoon, Ray R.. Owens, William A. (ed.) / Texas Folk Songs. 2nd edition, SMU Press, Bk (1976/1950), p 34 [1939] (Ti Risslety Rosslety)
Denoon, Ray R.. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume III, Humorous & Play-Party ..., Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p191/#439A [1938/04/28] (Risselty, Rosselty, No
Gant Family. Lomax, John A. & Alan Lomax / Our Singing Country, Dover, Sof (2000/1941), p131 [1936] (Married Me a Wife)
Kelly, Maidy. Owens, William A. (ed.) / Texas Folk Songs. 2nd edition, SMU Press, Bk (1976/1950), p 35 [1938] (Ti Risslety Rosslety)
Knapp, Ester. Pound, Louise (ed.) / American Ballads and Songs, Scribner, Sof (1972/1922), p236/#118 [1915] (I Bought Me a Wife)
Kweskin, Jim. Swing on a Star, Mountain Railroad MR 52793, LP (1979), trk# 4
Mills, Alan. More Songs to Grow On, Scholastic SC 7676, LP (1955), trk# B.06
New Lost City Ramblers. New Lost City Ramblers, Vol. 5, Folkways FA 2395, LP (1963), trk# 3 (Nick Nack Song)
New Lost City Ramblers. New Lost City Ramblers, Disc D 102, LP (196?), trk# 4 (Nick Nack Song)
Playter, Frank. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume III, Humorous & Play-Party ..., Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p192/#439B [1920/02/23]
Seeger, Peggy. Folk Songs with the Seegers, Prestige PR 7375, LP (1965), trk# 24
Seeger, Peggy. Three Sisters, Prestige International 13029, LP (1960s), trk# B.06
Seeger, Peggy. Seeger, Peggy / Five String Banjo American Folk Styles, Hargail, sof (1960), p44/#17
Seeger, Pete. Darling Cory and Goofing-Off Suite, Smithsonian/Folkways SF 40018, CD (1993), 2 [1947-49]

Green Valley [Ch 277]

Rt - Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin ; Gentle Fair Jenny
James, Stanley. Fowke, Edith (ed.) / The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs, Penguin, Sof (1973), p182/#79 [1957] (Jenny Go Gently/Gentle)
Judkins, Clarissa Mae. Scofield, Twilo (ed.) / An American Sampler, Cutthroat, Sof (1981), p 36 (Jenny Go Gently/Gentle)
Seeger, Peggy. Folk Songs with the Seegers, Prestige PR 7375, LP (1965), trk# 2
Seeger, Peggy. Three Sisters, Prestige International 13029, LP (1960s), trk# B.05

Gentle Fair Jenny [Ch 277]

Rt - Green Valley
Brand, Oscar. Laughing America, Tradition TLP 1014, LP (1960), trk# A.06 (Robin-A-Thrush)
Brand, Oscar. Brand, Oscar / Folk Songs for Fun, Berkeley Medallion, Sof (1961), p 27 (Robin-A-Thrush)
Moser, Artus M.. North Carolina Mountain Folksongs and Ballads, Folkways FD 5331, LP (1974), trk# 5
Nichols, Lydia R.. Journal of American Folklore, AFS, Ser (1887-), 7, p254(1894) [1890ca] (Sweet William and Gentle Jenny)
Ritchie, Edna. Edna Ritchie, Viper Kentucky, Folk Legacy FSA 003, LP (1962), trk# A.02
Ritchie, Jean. Best of Jean Ritchie, Prestige International INT 13003, LP (196?), trk# 5
Ritchie, Jean. British Traditional Ballads in the Southern Mountains (Vol. 2), Folkways FA 2302, LP (1961), trk# B.03
Ritchie, Jean. Lomax, Alan / Folk Songs of North America, Doubleday Dolphin, Sof (1975/1960), p167/# 85
Seeger, Peggy. Seeger, Peggy / Five String Banjo American Folk Styles, Hargail, sof (1960), p45/#18

Wee Cooper of Fife [Ch 277]

Rt - Jennifer Gently ; Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin ; Devilish Mary
Leisy, James / Songs for Pickin' and Singin', Gold Medal Books, sof (1962), p103
Silverman, Jerry (ed.) / Folksingers Guitar Guide, Oak, Sof (1961), p50
Lynn, Frank (ed.) / Songs for Swingin' Housemothers, Fearon, Sof (1963/1961), p238
Best, Dick & Beth (eds.) / New Song Fest Deluxe, Hansen, Sof (1971/1948), p 97 (Wee Cooper o' Fife)
Sing Together. A Girl Scout Songbook, Girl Scouts, Sof (1957/1949), p 66
Leisy, James F. (ed.) / Folk Song Abecedary, Bonanza, Bk (1966), p348
Barker, Horton. Chase, Richard (ed.) / American Folk Tales and Songs, Dover, sof (1971/1956), p122 [1930-40's] (Nickety, Nackety)
Child, Marilyn; & Glenn Yarborough. Marilyn Child - Glenn Yarborough Sing Folk Songs, Elektra EKL 143, LP (1958), trk# A.02 (Wee Cooper o' Fife)
Corries. Peat Fire Flames & Stovies, Moidart MOICD 018, CD (2000), trk# 1.10 [1977]
Gordon, J. D.; and Jennie Craven. Korson, George (ed.) / Pennsylvania Songs and Legends, Univ. of Penna., Bk (1949), p 41 [1943]
Ives, Burl. Wayfaring Stranger, Columbia CS 9041, LP (1964/1955), trk# A.05a
Ives, Burl. Ives, Burl / Burl Ives Song Book, Ballantine Books, Bk (1953), p200
Ives, Burl. Lollipop Tree, Harmony HS 14551, LP (197?), trk# B.01 (Wee Cooper o' Fife)
MacColl, Ewan. English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Vol. 3, Washington WLP 717, LP (1961/1956), trk# B.01 (Cooper of/o' Fife)
Monson, Stella (E.). Flanders, Helen H. & George Brown / Vermont Folk Songs and Ballads, Folklore Associates, Bk (1968/1931), p222 [1930/08/23] (Cooper of/o' Fife)
O'Hara, Mary. Mary O'Hara's Scotland, Tradition 2121, LP (197?), trk# B.09
Redpath, Jean. Scottish Ballad Book, Elektra EKL 214, LP (1962), trk# 4

Jennifer Gently [Ch 277]

Rt - Wee Cooper of Fife
Van Wagner, Etson. Cazden, Norman (ed.) / Merry Ditties, Bonanza Books, Bk