The Brown Girl- Eddy (WV) 1957 Musick D
[From: Ballads and Folksongs from West Virginia by Ruth Ann Musick; The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 70, No. 277 (Jul. - Sep., 1957), pp. 247-261.
R. Matteson 2012]
6. "The Brown Girl" (Lord Thomas and Fair Annet, Child 73) [8]
6.4. Text (some twenty-three stanzas in all, of which only the first is included) contributed by Mrs. Eddy; sung by her sister, Mrs. Edna Wright of Farmington (see Ex. 11).
Lord Thomas, he was a gay forester;
He was lord of many a town;
He fell in love with fair Ellender,
The fairest of all around.