Rise You Up- Hayes (KY) 1917 Sharp I
[My title replacing the generic Child title. From English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, Sharp/Karpeles 1932.
R. Matteson 2014]
I. [Rise You Up] Sung by Mrs. HAYES at Berea, Madison Co., Ky., May 28, 1917
Heptatonic. Ionian (Tonic G).
Rise you up, rise you up, little Marget, he did say,
Come go along with me;
For I can fight your seven brothers bold
Where ever they doth be.