Six Pretty Fair Maids- Clevenger (NJ) 1937 Halpert
[My title. Text from: Toward the Indexing of Ballad Texts by George List; The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 81, No. 319 (Jan. - Mar., 1968), pp. 44-61.
This is the only stanza provided by List- I don't have the recording. I assume the text is incomplete.
R. Matteson 2014]
Six Pretty Fair Maids- ATL 570.1. No title. Sung by Allen Clevenger, Magnolia, New Jersey, July 15, 1937. Collected by Herbert Halpert.
1. "Get off, get off, I say,
Get off, get off, I say,
For six pretty fair maidens I've drownded here
And the seventh one you shall be."