The House Carpenter- McCoy (MO) 1946 Randolph G

The House Carpenter- McCoy (MO) pre1946 Randolph G

[Single stanza, no date given, from Vance Randolph's Ozark Folksongs, Vol. 1, 1946.  I've completed the missing last line which is found also in "The Brown Girl" Child 73.

R. Matteson 2013] 

The House Carpenter- McCoy (MO) No date given, pre1946 Randolph G

She dressed herself in silverie,
And she shone like glittering gold,
She stepped right out in the moonlight bright,
And she [was a sight to behold.]