The Two Sisters- Pine Mountain School (KY) 1946
[No informant named, or date, with music. From Songs of All Time- contributions by Edna Ritchie, Ray McLain, Richard Chase and Marie Marvel, 1946 and 1957.
R. Matteson 2014]
The Two Sisters- As sung at Pine Mountain, Hindman, Ky.
There lived an old lord by the northern sea
Bow down;
There lived an old lord by the northern sea.
The boughs they bend to me.
There lived an old lord by the northern sea.
And he had daughters one, two three
I will be true, true to my love
and my love will be true to me.
2. A young man come a-courting there,
And he took choice of the youngest there.
3. He gave this girl o beaver hat,
The oldest she thought much of that,
4. He gave the youngest o gay gold ring,
But never the oldest a single thing,
5. "O sister, O sister, let us walk out
To see the ships a-soiling about."
6. As they walked down by the salty brim,
The oldest pushed the youngest in.
7. "O sister, O sister, lend me your hand,
And I will give you my house and land,"
8. "I'll neither lend you my hand nor glove,
But I will have your own true-love."
9. O down she sank and away she swam,
Till into the miller's fish-pond she ran,
10. The miller come out with his fish hook,
And fished the fair maid out of the brook,
11. He robbed her of her gay gold ring,
And into the brook he pushed her again,
12, The miller was hanged at his mill gate,
The oldest sister was burned at the stake.
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