Sweet Soldier Boy- Rosie Ayres (NC) 1918 Sharp MS
[My title. Single stanza with music from: Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) (CJS2/10/4607).
R. Matteson 2017]
Sweet Soldier Boy- sung by Rosie Ayres of Burnsville, N. Carolina on 14 September, 1918
Father, father, go build me a boat
It's over the ocean I must float,
It's ev'ry ship I pass by,
There I'll enquire for my sweet soldier boy.