Sailor Boy- Virginia Bennett (NC) 1918 Sharp MS
[My title. Single stanza with music from: Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) (CJS2/10/4597).
R. Matteson 2017]
[Sailor Boy] Sweet William- sung by Virginia Bennett of Burnsville, N. Carolina on 13 September, 1918.
Father, father, build me a boat
That on the ocean I may float,
And every ship I pass by,
I'll ask them for my sailor boy.