Sweet William - Patrick/Smith (KY) 1917 Sharp MS
[My title. Two stanzas with music from Sharp MS., 3916/. Bronson TTCB, No. 5, 1962.
R. Matteson 2014]
[Sweet William ] Sung by- Mrs. Patrick and Mrs. Smith Manchester, Ky., August 26, 1917.
Sharp notes in his MS that the second form of the tune was used was almost entirely, but that, erratically, the singers sometimes reversed to the first. He thought it might have depended on which singer took the lead, supposing that one form was favored by one, the other by the other singer.
Sweet William he said he was troubled in his head
At the dream he dreamed last night,
He dreamed that his Hall was full of wild swine
And his true love swimming in her own heart's blood.
Go saddle to me a milk white horse
Go saddle to me the brown
Go saddle to me the fastest horse
That ever trod its foot on the ground.