The Brown Girl- Keener (WV) 1957 Musick B
[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]
6.2. Sung by Mr. Keener, who learned it from his father and can give no other background for it, this is but a fragment of Child 73, or possibly Child 81, Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard (see Ex. 10).
He cut his wife's head off
And he kicked it up against the wall.
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