Six Pretty Maids- Sweet (NJ) 1937 REC 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 Maids- 578.22. No title. Sung by Elvin Sweet, Magnolia, New Jersey, August 1, 1937. Collected by Herbert Halpert.
1. "Take off, take off, your silken gown,
Deliver them unto me.
For six pretty maids I've drownded here
And seventh one you shall be."