Six Kings' Daughters- Sanders (WV) 1924 Cox
[From: Folk Songs Mainly from West Virginia; edited by John Harrington Cox. New York: National Service Bureau, 1939; with music, pp. 4-5. Bronson 127.
R. Matteson 2014]
"Six Kings' Daughters"- Sung by Frances Sanders, Morgantown, W.Va., June 1924. Cox, 1939
1. He followed her up and he followed her down,
To the bed chamber where she lay . . .
2. She mounted on her bonny, bonny, brown,
And he on the dappled gray,
And they rode till they came to the salt sea side,
Four long hours before it was day, day, day,
Four long hours before it was day.
3. "Six kings' daughters I have drowned here,
And the seventh one you shall be . . ."
4. . . .
And tumbled him into the sea, sea, sea,
And tumbled him into the sea.
5 She mounted on her bonny brown,
And she led the dappled gray,
And she rode till she came to her father's own door
Three long hours before it was day, day, day,
Three long hours before it was day.
6 . . . .
"Your cage shall be lined with my father's beaten gold
. . . .
And hung on a willow tree, tree, tree,
And hung on a willow tree."