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US & Canada Versions: 155. Sir Hugh, or, the Jew's Daughter 

[Currently in my collection there are 104 traditional versions from North America including one from Canada and two from the Bahamas. Missing versions are found at the bottom of this page. The versions date from circa 1763 to 1980. I have taken the liberty of changing titles that are not local. These titles are not reflected in the text of the song and in most cases have been assigned by collectors. Usually the assigned titles are one or both of the Child titles; Sir Hugh or, The Jew's Daughter.

Child provides three versions (G, H, and N) from America in his English and Scottish Popular Ballads, all dating from the early 1800s. Child Gb is the same informant as Child H, a Miss Perine of Baltimore. Child H, however, is Miss Perine's own version and Child Gb is Miss Perine's recollection of Mrs. Nourse's version (Ga is from Mrs. Dulany, Mrs. Nourse's daughter). Child G surely date to at least the late 1700s as the source informant, a Mrs. Nourse learned the ballad as a child circa 1800 (whoever she learned is from knew it in the 1700s).

If Child G doesn't conclusively date the ballad back in the 1700s, Davis D and CC from the same source (taken from sisters in the Purcell family) take the date back through family lines to circa 1763 (info provided by Davis). This slightly predates the earliest British version (Child B--Percy, 1765). We can assume the ballad, in it's current form, is older than that both here and abroad. How much older is unknown. It is assumed that the ballad in some form (similar to Hugo de Lincolnia, the Anglo-French ballad of circa 1255) was written contemporary of the murder of Hugh in 1255. In America the elements of Miracles of the Virgin Mary story, which predate the actual murder are gone and only the reference (clear only in Child A) --Hugh being thrown in a well, remains. Hugh's conversation with his mother after he has died (or is dying), and his removal from the well to be buried in the church graveyard is rare in America. The name Sir Hugh is usually corrupted to Son Hugh and only in Scarborough B from North Carolina is his name, Sir Hugh.

The ballad has been popular in Appalachia with numerous versions from Davis (Virginia A-M, and AA-DD) Sharp (A-I, 1916-1918), Cox (A-M, in WV before 1922) Henry (A-B) Brown (NC, A-D) and others. These versions indicate, ipso facto, that Virginia colony was the primary point of dissemination in North America. The ballad has been collected as far north as Nova Scotia and as far south as Bahama (Parson's "Queen's Own Yard" and Lomax, "Queen's Garden"). However, it is rare in Canada and the Northeast. Only one version has been found in Canada, none in Maine (Barry BBM, 1929 finds someone of recognizes it) and only four in New England (Flanders A and B; Tollman B; Leach). Several versions have surfaced in New York (Newell; Joyce) and Pennsylvania (Child G; Rinker; Bayard, others).

Not mentioned by Child, McCabe and others is the typical "Lord Lovel" form found frequently in North America. I assume it was adapted by the mid to late 1700s and is found in Child R (Motherwell, pre1824). Here is a stanza from Oklahoma via Missouri and Kentucky:

"Pray bury my prayer book at my feet,
My Bible at my head.
If father or mother inquire for me,
Pray tell them their little boy's dead, dead, dead,
Pray tell them their little boy's dead."

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Coffin gives three types, A-C. He notes the "chicken" texts but does not mention the "water birch" type mentioned in Stamper and Jenson's JAF 1958 article "Water Birch": An American Variant. I've found that article to also be somewhat lacking-- the rod (or water birch) is carried by Hugh's mother to punish her child for running away from home or not returning home-- not for murdering Hugh. Stamper and Jensen also incorrectly (by the common name in Appalachia Son Hugh) assume that Hugh was murdered by his mother. Chapter 11 of Mary Diane McCabe, (1980) A critical study of some traditional religious ballads, her Durham thesis analyzes Sir Hugh. The "Water Birch" variant is part of McCabe's Group II texts, which she calls "The School Group." Two of McCabe's three groups may be used to categorize the North American texts (Group I is only from Scotland and cannot be used). Here's part of what McCabe writes about Group II; The School Group:

  The 'School Group' stresses that Hugh was a schoolboy and that his mother missed him when he failed to return from school, features both of the miracle of the singing boy and the annals of Burton. 'School Group' texts commonly open with a reference to the time at which the incident took place, either a holy day, or a day in summer. This type of reference is found also in secular balladry but in the 'School Group' might just possibly be derived from the medieval tradition of little St. Hugh. Some 'School Group' texts preserve the medieval features of the mother's direct inquiry of the Jews, the Jew's taunt (though such taunts are a ballad commonplace) and the suggestion that Hugh had been warned not to associate with Jews.

One detail which may have been in the ur-ballad has been corrupted in the 'School Group': in text 3 (group I) , Hugh's mother sets out, like the mother in an early version of the miracle of the singing boy but also like many a ballad heroine, with a staff in her hand. In the 'School Group' texts, Hugh's mother takes up a stick in order to beat her son for staying from home so long:

    She put her mantle about her head,
    Tuk a little rod in her han,
    An she says, 'Sir Hugh, if I fin you here,
    I will bate you for stayin so long.'
       S.H. 9 sta. 8.

The following are the distinctive features of The School Group from McCabe. II.i is mostly Irish and Scottish although there are 7 US versions mostly from Irish ancestry. Following that is The School Group II.ii which is American:

II. The School Group

    II.i. The Scottish and Irish School Group (S.I.S.)
    Major Distinctive Features of Group II.i.

(a) The texts may begin with a reference to Summer, e.g. S.H. 11 sta. 1.1,. "It was on a May, on a midsummer's day".
(b) Other texts begin with a reference to a holy day. e.g. S.H. 14 b sta . 1.1, "Yesterday was a high holiday."
(c) Hugh and his companions are called school boys. e.g. S.H. 16 sta . 1.3.
(d) Hugh is called "little", e.g. S.H. 9 sta. 7.4. Most Irish variants designate the boy "little Harry Hughes" or similar, e.g. S.H. 11 sta. 1.3.
(e) Sometimes a window is broken (e.g. S.H. 11 sta. 2 ), sometimes not (e.g. 9 sta. 1), but the Jew's daughter usually initiates the conversation by inviting Hugh in. e.g. S.H. 18 sta . 2.
(f) Hugh protests, as in group I (e.g. S.H. 3 sta. 4.3-4), t h a t he cannot enter without his playfellows (e.g. S.H. 11 sta. 4.1-2); usually he also intimates that his mother will be angry. e.g. S.H. 11 sta. 4.3-4; 19 sta. 2.5-6.
(g) In Irish texts , the Jew's daughter rolls the apple along the ground in order to tempt Hugh, e.g. S.H. 11 sta. 5.
(h) The account of the murder varies. The Jew's daughter's taunt as she throws him into the well is well preserved; usually the stanza begins, "Lie there, lie there", e.g. S.H. 11 sta. 10.
(i) Hugh's failure to return is mentioned in a stanza beginning, "The day passed by and the night came on, and every scholar was home, etc. " e.g. S.H. 11 sta. 11.
(j) Hugh's mother takes a stick with her to beat Hugh for staying away so long. e.g. S.H. 13 sta. 7; 10 sta. 10.
(k)  The boy in the well protests that he cannot speak to his mother because of the pen knife in his heart, e.g. S.H. 11 sta. 14, but cf. group I, S.H. 3 sta. 15, e t c.
(1) Hugh is concerned that he should be buried properly, e.g. that he should be buried in the churchyard (S.H. 9 sta. 13.3-4) or have a bible at his head etc. (S.H. 11 sta. 16). Often he leaves a message for his school friends; e.g. S.H. 9 sta. 12; 11 sta. 15.
(m) The most coherent texts in this group originate in Scotland or Ireland.

S.H.11: Child 155 N and Bronson 155 no.5, from W.W. Newell, Games and Songs of American Children (first printed 1883), pp. 76-78; also in Newell, J.F.S.S., IV, no. 14 (1910), p. 36 and Smith, Musical Quarterly, II (1916),. p.123 (A); 'Little Harry Hughes and the Duke's Daughter', collected by Newell from the singing of coloured children in New York, who learned it from a little girl, who learned it from her Irish mother; 16 stas., with tune (Bronson group A.b.).

S.H.16: Bronson 155 no.7, from Hubbard and Robertson, J.A.F. LXIV (1951), pp.47-48; also in L.A. Hubbard, Ballads and Songs from Utah, Salt Lake City, 1961, p.24; 'Little Saloo', sung by Mrs. Mabel J. Overson; learned long before from Mrs. Anna McKellar, Leamington, Utah. 7 stas., with tune (Bronson group A.b.); in this version, 'Saloo' is murdered by his aunt.

S.H.18: Bronson 155 no.60, from J. Joyce, Ulysses, New York, 1934, p.675; 'Little Harry Hughes'; 5 stas., with tune (Bronson group H).

S.H. 19.: Bronson 155 no. 65, from P. Barry, Bulletin of the Folk Song Society of the North. East no.5 (1933), p.7; also in Flanders, Ballard, Brown and Barry, New Green Mountain Songster, p. 254 and in Flanders, Anc. Ballads, III. p. 124; 'Sir Hugh' or 'The Jew's Daughter', recorded and transcribed by George Brown from the singing of Josiah S. Kennison of Townshend, Vermont (at Cambridge. Mass.) on 6 April 1932; 6 stas., with tune (Bronson group M); garbled.

S.H.20: Bronson 155 no.66, from Flanders and Olney, Ballads Migrant in New England, p.30; also in Flanders, Anc. Ballads, III , p.121; 'Little Harry Huston', collected by H. Flanders from the singing of Mrs. John Fairbanks, North Springfield, Vermont, in 1939; Mrs. Fairbanks learned it from her mother, Margaret Kelley, of County Limerick, Ireland, who learned it from her family; 12 stas., with tune (Bronson group M).

S.H.23: Scarborough, Song Catcher, pp.173-174; a version sent to Scarborough through Mrs. Rachel Slocumb, from Mrs. Charity Lovingood of Murphy, N.C; 9 stas., without tune; the text exhibits some features of group III. i.

 II. ii. The American School Group (A.S.)
     Major Distinctive Features of Group II.ii.

(a) These variants open with references to a holy day (sometimes garbled) and to dew drops falling, e.g. S.H. 31 sta. 1.
(b) The Jew's daughter appears with apples in her hand and calls Hugh, "my little son Hugh", e.g. S.H. 29 sta. 1.
(c) Hugh declines the Jew's daughter's invitation on the grounds that if his mother knew, she would make his red blood fall, e.g. S.H. 32 sta. 4.
(d) After leading Hugh to a room where no-one can hear him call (e.g. S.H. 32. sta. 5) the Jew's daughter kills him by seating him in a chair, piercing him with a pin, and catching his blood in a silver basin , e.g. 32 sta. 6.
(e) The Jew's daughter's taunt begins, "Sink, O sink ", e.g. S.H. 27 sta. 5.
(f) The mother's stick, with which she sets out to beat her son home - see group II. i, feature (j)- is a birch-rod. e.g. S.H. 29 sta. 7.1.
(g) Hugh's instructions for burial are much as in group II. i, feature (1).
(h) Most variants in this group come from states lying beside the Appalachian mountains, especially Kentucky and Tennessee.

Appendix G, group II. ii Sources

S.H. 24: a. Bronson 155 no. 8, from Sharp MSS. 3866/.; also in Sharp and Karpeles, English F o l k Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I , p.229 (I); 'Little Sir Hugh', collected from the singing of Mrs. Nancy Alice Hensley, Oneida, Clay County, Ky., in 1917; 1st sta. only, with tune (Bronson group A.b.).
            b. Bronson 155 no. 14, from Sharp MSS. 3867/.; also in Sharp and Karpeles, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I , p.229 (H); 'Little Sir Hugh', sung by Mrs. Sophie Annie Hensley, Oneida, Clay County, Ky., in 1917; 1st sta . only (identical with a.), with a similar tune (Bronson group A.c.).

S.H. 25: a. Bronson 155 no. 9, from LC/AAFS recording no. 4987; ' 'Twas on a Cold and Winter ' s Day', collected by Robert F. Draves from Mrs. Pearl Jacobs Borusky, Pearson, Wisconsin in 1941; Mrs. Borusky learned it from her mother, Mrs. Jacobs, who learned it from William Hagerman of West Virginia ; 12 stas., with tune (Bronson group A.b.)
            b. Treat, J.A.F., LII (1939), p.434, no. 45; collected by Asher E. Treat from the same singer, 15 July 1938; text and tune virtually identical with a.

S.H. 26: a. Bronson 155 no.10. a, from Sharp MSS. 4266/3066; also in Sharp and Karpeles, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, p. 227 (F) ; 'Sir Hugh', sing by Mr. Dol Small of Nellysford, Va., 22 May 1918. 9 stas., with tune (Bronson group A.b.).
           b. Bronson 155 no. 10. b. from LC/AAFS recording no. 10.003 (A1) collected by M. Karpeles and Sidney Robertson Cowell from the same singer (aged 81) on 10 September 1950; text and tune virtually identical with a.

S.H.27: Bronson 155 no.15, from Sharp MSS. 3839/2811; also in Sharp and Karpeles, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, p.226 (E); 'Sir Hugh', sung by Ben J. Finlay, Manchester, Ky., on 10 August 1917; 6 stas., with tune (Bronspn group A.c.).

S.H.28: Bronson 155 no.16, from Sharp MSS. 3896/2840; also in Sharp and Karpeles. English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I , p.228 (G); 'Sir Hugh', sung by Mrs. Dan Bishop, Teges, Clay County, Ky. on 21 August 1917; 5 stas., with tune (Bronson group A.c.)

S.H.29: Bronson 155 no. 17, from Sharp MSS. 3943/2852; also in Sharp and Karpeles, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I , p.299 (J) ; 'Sir Hugh', sung by Mrs. Berry Creech, Pine Mountain, Harlan County, Ky. on 29 August 1917; 10 stas., with tune (Bronson group A.d.).

S.H.30: Bronson 155 no.19, from Sharp MSS. 3579/.; 'Sir Hugh', sung by Miss Julia Maples. Sevier County. Tenn. on 19 April 1917; one (burial) sta. with tune (Bronson group A.d.)

S.H..31: Bronson 155 no.20, from Sharp MSS. 3583/2645; also in Sharp and Karpeles, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. I , p. 222 (B); 'Sir Hugh', sung by Luther Campbell. Bird's Creek, Sevier County. Tenn. on 19 April 1917; 8 stas., with tune (Bronson group A.d.).

S.H.32:- Bronson .155 no.21. from Sharp MSS. 3585/2648; also in Sharp and Karpeles, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I , p.223 (C); 'Sir Hugh', sung by W.M. Maples, Sevier County, Tenn. on 20 April 1917; 12 stas., with tune (Bronson group A.d.).

S.H.33: Bronson 155 no.22, from Sharp MSS. 3509/2592; also in Sharp and Karpeles, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I , p.222 (A) ; 'Sir Hugh', sung by Mrs. Swan Sawyer, Black Mountain, N.C. on 19 September 1916; 3 stas., with tune, (Bronson group A. d.).

S.H.34: Bronson 155 no.23, from Sharp MSS. 3655/2719; also in Sharp and Karpeles, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I , p.225 (D); 'Sir Hugh', sung by Mrs. Mollie Broghton, Barbourville, Knox County, Ky. on 7 May 1917; 6 stas., with tune, (Bronson group A.d.).

S.H.35: Burton and Manning, East Tennessee State University Collection, pp.1-2; 'Little Son Hugh', sung by Mrs. Audrey McGuire in 1964; Mrs. McGuire, born in Watauga County, N.C. in 1884, learned most of her songs from her mother when she was a child; 9 stas., with tune (not in Trad. Tunes, but of Bronson type A.d.).

S.H. 36: B. G. Lumpkin, N.C. Folklore, XLVII, no. 2 (1969), pp. 59-60; 'Sonny Hugh', collected by Lumpkin in September 1951 from the singing of Mrs. Pearl Hartsell of Chapel Hill, N.C., who learned her songs c.1915 from her mother, Mrs. H. Connell and her grandmother, Mrs. J. Taylor Burris, of Stanly County, N.C.; 11 stas., with tune.

S.H. 37: unpublished: see R.V.W. Library, Sharp MSS. /2788-2789; "from Professor Raine's collection; he took down the words only of the ballad from Mrs. Lucy Banks, late of Paint Lick, Ky."; 12 stas., without tune.

S.H. 38: Stamper and Jansen, J.A.F., LXXI (1958), pp.16-17; 'Water Birch', collected by F. Stamper from an unspecified singer of Littcarr, Knott County, Ky. on 30 December 1955; 14 stas., without tune; in this variant, Hugh's mother is the murderess.

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There is one early country music recording by the Alabama group, Nelstone's Hawaiians, made in 1929 titled, Fatal Flower Garden [Listen: Nelstone's Hawaiians].

I've put the first batch of versions (see collections immediately below) on and have more. Most of the JAF versions are included.

Cox- Folk-Songs of the South- 1925 (A-M; texts for A-F);
Henry- (A-B)
Brown- (A-D)
Sharp- (A-J, with two additional MS copies)
Eddy- A
Belden A-C
Brewster: Ballads and Songs of Indiana- (A-C)
Hunter- 3 versions with recordings.

R. Matteson 2013, 2015]

CONTENTS: (To access individual version click on the blue highlighted title below or on the title attached to this page on the left hand column - in green)

    1) The Little Boy- Purcell (VA) c.1763 Davis D; Davis CC -- My title, it was later titled by Davis (as sung by her sister in 1934) "Little Boy and the Ball." From Traditional Ballads of Virginia, Davis- 1929. Also Davis CC (recorded in 1934, published in 1960 in More TBVa) is from Margaret Purcell who must be Evelyn's younger sister. The text is very similar and a tune has been added.

    2) It Rains in Old Scotland- Nourse (PA) c1802 Child G -- My title and date. From: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis J. Child; Volume 5: Ballads 114-155 published January/February, 1888. Child G b is the same informant as Child H, a Miss Perine of Baltimore. Child H, however, is Miss Perine's own version taken from her mother. Mrs. Nourse's version dates back to the 1700s since the informant's source surely knew it then. 

    3) The Jew's Daughter- Perine (MD) 1825 Child H -- Child's title and date. From: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis J. Child; Volume 5: Ballads 114-155 published January/February, 1888. Child G b is the same informant as this version, Child H, a Miss Perine of Baltimore. Child H, however, is Miss Perine's own version as taken from her mother who knew it in 1825.

    4) The Jew's Daughter- Rinker (PA) c.1872 Rinker -- From: The Ballad of "The Jew's Daughter" by B. Floyd Rinker; The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 39, No. 152 (Apr.- Jun., 1926), pp. 212-213. From Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It is from the singing of Mrs. Samantha E. Rinker. She learned it about 1872 from her mother.

    5) The Jew's Garden- Hubbard (MS) c.1876 Hudson
    The Jeweler's Daughter- Griffin (GA-FL) 1877 Morris
    The Jewish Lady- Johnson (NC) c.1880 Brown D
    Little Harry Hughes- girl (NY) 1883 Newell/Child N
    The Jew's Garden- Fricker (PA) c.1890 Beckwith
    The Jew's Daughter- Young (WV) c.1900 Cox D
    The Jew's Daughter- Fitch (MD) pre1902 Krehbiel A
    The Jew's Daughter- spinster (CT) 1902 Krehbiel B
    The Jew's Garden- (MO) 1903 Williams/ Belden A
    The Jew's Garden- Williams (MO) pre-1906 Belden B
    The Jew's Garden- Lewis (MO-VA) 1906 Belden C
    The Jew's Maiden- Bull (CT) 1907 Tolman B
    It Rained a Mess- Rush (NC-VA) c. 1912 McCraw
    The Jew Lady- (VA-AL) pre1912 Smith/ Pound B
    The Jew's Daughter- (VA) 1913 Davis A
    The Jew's Daughter- Brunk (VA) 1913 Davis B
    It Rained a Mist- Soyers (NC-VA) 1913 Davis H
    Queen's Garden- Rode (VA) 1914 Davis I
    The Little School Boy- Schafer (VA) 1914 Davis J
    It Rained a Mist- Burgess (VA) 1915 Davis F
    It Rained a Mist- Wright (NC-VA) 1915 Davis G
    It Rained, It Mist- Withers (WV) 1916 Cox B
    The Jew's Daughter- Barker (WV) 1916 Cox C
    The Jew's Lady- McCourt (WV) 1916 Cox E
    Sir Hugh- Sawyer (NC) 1916 Sharp A
    The Jewish Lady- Keller (IN) 1916 Tolman JAF
    The Jew's Daughter- Davis (VA) 1916 Davis K
    The Jew's Garden- McLaughlin (CA-VA) 1916 Davis L
    The Jew's Garden- Goodwin (KY-OK) 1916 Moores
    It Rained a Mist- Heitt (WV) 1917 Cox A
    The Jew's Garden- Campbell (TN) 1917 Sharp B
    The Jews's Garden- Maples (TN) 1917 Sharp C
    The Jewish Lady- Broughton (KY) 1917 Sharp D
    The Jewress Lady Gay- Finlay (KY) 1917 Sharp E
    Jewish Lady- Bishop (KY) 1917 Sharp G
    Up in a Dark Hollow- Hensley (KY) 1917 Sharp H
    A Jewess- Creech (KY) 1917 Sharp J
    Up in a Dark Hollow 2- N. Hensley(KY) 1917 Sharp I
    Little Sir Hugh- J. Maples (TN) 1917 Sharp MS
    Little Son Hugh- Banks (KY) c. 1917 Raine
    Little Boy Hugh- Small (VA) 1918 Sharp F
    Pretty Yellow Apple- J. Boone (NC) 1918 Sharp MS
    Jewish Maiden- Gipson (VA) 1919 Stone/ Davis M
    Little Boy Threw His Ball- Dashiell (VA) 1921 Davis E
    The Jew's Daughter- Wise (OH) pre-1922 Eddy
    It Rained a Mist- Hatfield (VA) 1923 Peel/ Davis C
    The Jew's Daughter- Fowler (WV) pre-1925 Cox F
    The Jew's Garden- Bosserman (MO) 1927 Randolph A
    Queen's Own Yard- (BAH) pre1928 Parsons
    The Two Playmates- Bolin (SC) pre1928 Smith
    Fatal Flower Garden- Nelstone's Hawaiians(AL) 1929
    A Little Boy Lost His Ball- Tucker (GA) 1929 Henry
    Fair Scotland- Gump (PA) 1929 Bayard/Korson
    The Jew's Daughter- McNab (NS) 1929 Creighton
    The Jew's Daughter- Gibson (VA) 1931 Davis AA
    Little Sir Hugh- Slocumb (NC) c1931 Scarborough B
    The Jewses' Daughter- Starke (VA) 1931 Davis DD
    The Jew's Daughter- Hoisington (NY-PA) 1931 JAF
    It Rained a Mist- Bray (NC) pre1932 Brown B
    Ballad- Bast (NC via MD) 1932 Brown C
    The Jewish Lady- Yeatts (VA) 1932 Davis BB
    A Little Boy- Kennison (VT) 1932 Barry/Flanders B
    Hugh of Lincoln- Hoover (NY via PA) pre1933 Henry
    It Rained a Mist- Jones (VA) 1933 Gresham A
    It Rained a Mist- Caudle (VA) 1933 Gresham B
    It Rained- Schell (NC) 1933 Matteson
    The King's Garden- Hill (MO-OK) 1934 Randolph B
    Little Harry Hughes- (NY) 1934 James Joyce's book
    It Rained a Mist- Bost (NC) c.1935 Brown A
    Queen's Garden- male singer (BAH) 1935 Lomax
    The Jew's Garden- Vaughn (IN) 1935 Brewster B
    The Jew's Daughter- Coleman (VA) 1935 Wilkinson
    It Rained- Rabb (IN) 1936 Brewster A
    The Jew's Daughter- Allardin (IN) 1936 Brewster C
    The Jew's Daughter- Nye (OH-VA) 1937 Lomax REC
    'Twas on a Cold & Winter Day- Borusky (WI) 1938
    Little Harry Huston- Fairbanks(VT) 1939 Flanders A
    The Jew's Daughter- Reed (NC) c.1939 York/Abrams
    The Jew Lady- Goodwin (NC) c.1940 Abrams
    Jewish Lady- Ward (VA) 1941 Lomax REC
    Meller Apple- Trail (AR) 1942 Randolph C
    I can't come in- Carlisle (AR) 1942 Randolph D
    It Rained, It Mist- Young (AL-KY) 1945 Arnold
    Old Maid's Yard- Keener (WV) pre1947 Musick
    Little Saloo- Overson (UT) pre1948 Hubbard
    Sonny Hugh- Hartsell (NC) 1951 Lumpkin
    Water Birch- (KY) 1955 Stamper JAF
    The Jew's Daughter- Branham (KY) 1957 Roberts
    The Jew's Garden- Parker (AR) 1958 Max Hunter
    Jew's Garden- Majors (AR) 1959 Max Hunter
    It Rained a Mist- Wright (OH) c. 1959 Grimes REC
    It Rained a Mist- Pullen (RI) c.1961 Leach/Beck
    Duty Garden- F. Shiflett (VA) 1962 Foss REC
    It Rained, It Mist- Collins (NC) 1962 Foss REC
    Little Son Hugh- McGuire (TN-NC) 1964 Burton
    Rained A Mist- Gilbert (AR) 1969 Max Hunter C
    It Rained a Mist- Lundy (VA) 1973 REC
    The Duke's Daughter- Rogers (WV) pre1975 Gainer
    It Rained, It Mist- Cole (VA) pre1980 Mike Yates REC
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Notes from English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, 1934 edition; collected by Cecil J. Sharp, edited Karpeles

Notes; No. 31. Sir Hugh.
Texts without tunes:—Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, No. 155. C. S. Burne's Shropshire Folk-Lore, p. 539. Baring-Gould's Nursery Songs and Rhymes, pp. 92 and 94. Cox's Folk Songs of the South, p. 120 (see also further
references). Journal of American Folk-Lore, xix. 293 ; xxix. 164; xxxix. 108.
Texts with tunes :—M. H. Mason's Nursery Rhymes, p. 46. English County Songs, p. 86. Journal of the Folk-Song Society, i. 264. Rimbault's Musical Illustrations of Percy's Reliques, p. 46. Motherwell's Minstrelsy, Appendix, xvii, tune No. 7. Scots Musical Museum, vi, No. 582. Folk Songs from Somerset, No. 68 (published also in English Folk-Songs, Selected Edition, i. 22, and One Hundred English Folk- Songs, p. 22). Newell's Games and Songs of American Children, p. 76. Reed Smith's South Carolina Ballads, p. 148. D. Scarborough's On the Trail of Negro Folk Songs, pp. 53-5. Musical Quarterly, January 1916, p. 15. Journal of American Folk-Lore, xxxv. 344; xxxix, 213. Davis's Traditional Ballads of Virginia, pp. 400 and 587.
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NOTES FROM TRADITIONAL BALLADS OF VIRGINIA (Davis, 1929)

SIR HUGH, or, THE JEW'S DAUGHTER
(Child, No. 155)

This familiar old ballad is founded upon what passed for an actual occurrence in England in the year 1255. Child summarizes the story told by a contemporary writer in the Annals of Waverley, in these words: "A boy in Lincoln, named Hugh, was crucified by the Jews in contempt of Christ, with various preliminary tortures. To conceal the act from Christians, the body, when taken from the cross, was thrown into a running stream, but the water would not endure the wrong done its maker, and immediately ejected it upon dry land. The body was then buried in the earth, but was found above ground the next day; The guilty parties were now very much frightened and quite at their wit's end; as a last resort they threw the corpse into a drinking-well. Thereupon the whole place was filled with so brilliant a light and so sweet an odor that it was clear to everybody that there must be something holy and prodigious in the well. The body was seen floating on the water, and, upon, its being drawn up, the hands and feet were found to be pierced, the head had, as it were, a crown of bloody points, and there were various other wounds, from all which it was. plain that this was the work of the abominable Jews. A blind woman, touching the bier on which the blessed martyr's corpse was carrying to the church, received her sight, and many other miracles followed. Eighteen Jews, convicted of the crime, and confessing it with their own mouth, were hanged." Additional circumstances are supplied by other contemporary or near--contemporary writers, and many other instances of child murder, or pretended child-murder by the Jews, with horrible Christian reprisals, are cited by Child, who concludes that they are "only a part of a persecution which, with all moderation, may be rubricated as the most disgrace chapter in the history of the human race."

The English ballads founded upon the Hugh of Lincoln incident of course depart a good deal from the original occurrence, and doubtless, in the course of long tradition, from their original form. The story told by most of the Virginia texts is this: some little boys are playing ball, and one tosses the ball into the Jew's garden, where no one dares to go'. The Jew's daughter invites the boy in, but he refuses because he fears he may not come  out again. She entices him in with- a red apple or other attraction, leads him to a remote part of the house where none may hear him call, and there sticks him with a pin and stabs him with a carving-knife, after providing a basin in which to catch his heart's blood. (In D and F, the boy finds his own nurse within, picking a chicken; but she is deaf to his entreaties. Compare Child H and K. The boy asks that a Bible be put at his head, a prayer book at his feet, that his mother be told that he is asleep, his playmates that he is dead. In D and E, I and J, he is carried away and thrown into a deep well.

The sixteen Virginia texts, which clearly represent more than one version, show their closest relationship to the Child series G, H, I, J, K, but the likeness is by no means exact in any case. Stanza A 6 and the corresponding stanza in other Virginia texts are most.like child F 4 and N 6. In Virginia text is the boy named (except in the title, which may be the work of the collector). The subsequent action of Child A-F, in which the mother sets out to seek her son, converses with him miraculously in the well, and finally has his body returned to her, with attendant miracles, is entirely lacking in the Virginia texts.

"The Jew's Daughter" is the most usual Virginia title, but "It Rained a Mist," "The Little School Boy," and "A Little Boy Threw His Ball So High" are also known. "Sir Hugh" and "Little Harry Hughes" are doubtless borrowed. Seven melodies are given, some related, some quite distinct.

For American texts see Belden, No, 8 (fragment); Bulletin, Nos. 2-5, 7, 9, 11; Campbell and Sharp, No. 26 (North Carolina, Child, III, 248 (Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York from Newell's Games and Sings of American Children); Cox, No. 9; Hudson, No. 17 (and, Journal, XXXIX 108 Mississippi) Jones, p. 301; Journal, xv, 195 (reprinted from the New York Tribune August 17, 1902, H. E. Krehbiel) ; xix, 293 (Belden, Missouri, Kentucky) XXIX, 164 (Tolman, Indiana, Connecticut); xxxv, 344 Tolman and Eddy, Iads, text and melody); xxxix, 212 (Rinker, Pennsylvania); Pound, Ballads No. 5; Scarborough, p. 53 Virginia, text and melody, Alabama from The University of Virginia Magazine, December, 1912); Sheirin, p. 4, Shearin and Combs, p. 8; C. A. Smith, p. 15 (New York from Newell Games and Songs of American Children, Virginia, three melodies only, Alabama, text and melody); Reed Smith, Ballad No. 11. For additional references, see Cox, p. 120: Journal, xxix, 164; xxx,322; xxxv,344.

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Belden's notes from Ballads and Songs from the Missouri Folklore Society; 1940.

Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter (Child 155)

It is somewhat surprising, in view of the vogue of the two themes combined in this ballad in medieval story, that Child finds it in traditional balladry only in English. It is also remarkable that it has retained its popularity in America down to the present, as appears from the record of it listed below. The two themes are the miracle of our Lady and the ritual murder of a Christian child by Jews. For the former see especially Professor Carleton Brown's paper in the Chaucer Society publications Series 2 No. 4b (1910).^[1] The latter is dealt with at some length in Child's headnote, and exhaustively by H. L. Strack, professor of theology at Berlin.^[2] Belief in ritual murder is by no means extinct, as is shown by the excitement over an alleged case at Kief in 1913; nor is it held only in Slavic Europe. A charge of ritual murder was brought against the Jews of Massena, New York, as late as 1928. What has kept the ballad alive in America is probably not, however, racial or religious animosity but the simple pathos of the little schoolboy's death. The miracle of Mary, which is the theme of Chaucer's treatment of the story in the Prioress's tale and which is still viable in some of the older versions of the ballad, Child A for instance, has almost entirely vanished from American versions; Our Lady's drawwell has become simply a well or has disappeared completely, and the mother if she appears at all is merely a sorrowing (or sometimes a threatening) mother. Nor do any of the recent texts of the ballad show any clear idea that the murder has anything to do with religion. The enticer of the little boy is however regularly a Jew's daughter (in the medieval miracle stories the boy is kidnapped or enticed, but never by a woman), and there is frequently a sort of formality about the killing--she lays him on a board and stabs him like a sheep: she carefully saves his blood in a basin; she withdraws to an inner room to do the deed, 'where no one can hear him call'-- which may well be a dim memory of the original motivation. Practically all the texts listed below, if they are not fragments, start with the boys playing ball and throwing their ball into the Jew's garden, and most of them note that it was rainy weather. For conclusion many of them draw upon the formula found in most texts of The Two Brothers. An incongruous detail found in some of the Virginia texts-- that when he is brought inside the Jew's house he finds there his nurse (or mother, or sister) picking a chicken-- is not an American invention, being found also in Child H K S and in one of the versions recorded by Sharp in Somerset.

The ballad has been recorded since Child's time in Hampshire (JFSS I 264), Somerset (JFSS Y 253-5), the Bahamas (JAFL XLI 470), and Nova Scotia (SBNS 16-7); and in the United States in Vermont (BFSSNE V 6-7), Connecticut (JAFL XXIX 166), New York (JAFL XLIV 296-7 ), Pennsylvania (JAFL XXXIX 212-3, XLIV 65-7, FSSH 103-4, SCSM 174-5), Virginia (TBY 400-15, TNFS 53-4, SharpK I 227-8, JAFI: XLVII 358-61, Grapurchat for 25 August, 7932), West Virginia (FSS 720-7 ), Kentucky (SharpK I 225-7, 228-9), Tennessee (SharpK T 222-5), lrlorth Carolina (SharpK I222, BMFSB 22-3, SCSM 123-4), South Carolina (SCB 148-50), Georgia (JAFL XLIY 64-5, FSSH 104-5), Alabama (ABS 15) , Mississippi FSM 116-7), Ohio (JAFL XXXV 344-5), Indiana (JAFL XXIX 164, XLVIII 297-8), and Missouri B. Mrs. Jones (KNIR 301) mentions it as known in Michigan but does not give a text.

1. Woodburn Ross MLN L 307-10
2. Jews and Human Sacrifice, London 1909

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From Ballads and Songs by G. L. Kittredge
The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 30, No. 117 (Jul. - Sep., 1917), pp. 283-369

SIR HUGH, OR THE JEW'S DAUGHTER (Child, No. 155).
To the material and references collected in this Journal, 29 : 164-166, it may be added that Cox reports nine variants from West Virginia (45:I6o; JAFL 29 :400); B. L. Jones (p. 5), one from Michigan; and Perrow, one from Kentucky (letter of Feb. 12, 1914). Compare also Virginia Folk-Lore Society, Bulletin, No. 2, pp. 3, 6; No. 3, p. 5; No. 4, PP. 4, 8; No. 5, p. 8; "Berea Quarterly," October, 1915 (18: 12). Belden has three variants. See also Sharp, "One Hundred English Folksongs," No. 8, pp. xx-xxi, 22-23.

Excerpt from The British Traditional Ballad in North America

by Tristram Coffin 1950, from the section A Critical Biographical Study of the Traditional Ballads of North America

155. SIR HUGH OR THE JEW'S DAUGHTER

Texts: Altoona tribune, 11 16 '31, 6 / Barry, Brit Bids Me, 461 (trace) / Belden, Mo' F-S, 69 / Berea Quarterly, XVIII, 12 / Brewster, Bids Sgs 2nd, 128 / Brown Coll / BFSSNE, V, 6 / Bull Tenn FLS, VIII, #3, 76 / Child, III, 248, 251 / Cos, F-S South, 120 / Creighton, Sgs Bids NSc, 16 /Davis, Trd Bid Va, 400 / Eddy, Bids Sgs Ohio, 66 / Flanders, New Gn Mt Sgstr, 254 / Focus, III, 396, 399 / Grapurcbat, Ea. Radford (Va.) State Teacher's College, 25 '32 / Henry, Beech MtF-S, 22 / Henry, F-S So Hgblds, 102 / Hudson, F-S Miss, 1 16 / Hudson, Spec Miss F-L, # 1 7 / Jones, F-L Mich, 5 / JAFL, XV, 1 95 ; XIX, 293 ; XXIX, 1 64 j
XXXV, 344; XXXIX, 108, 212; XLI, 470; XLIV, 65, 2965 XLVII, 358; XLVIII, 2975 LII, 43 / Leach-Beck Mss. / Morris, F-S Fla, 450 / Musical Quarterly, II, 124 / Newell, Games Sgs Am Children, 75 / New York Tribune, 727 and 8 4 '22 / Pound, Am Bids Sgs, 13 / Randolph, Oz F-S, I, 148 / Scarborough, On Trail N F-S, 53 / Scarborough, Sgctchr So Mts, 171 / SharpC, EngF-S So Aplchns, #26 / SharpK, EngF-S So Aplchns, I, 222 / Shearin and Combs, Ky Syllabus, 8 / Reed Smith, SC Bids, 148 / SFLQ, VIII, 154 / University of Va. Mgz, Dec. 1912, 115 / Pa FLS Butt, 4s 2 "5 } 7 3 9 n- Korson, Pa Sgs Lgds, 36.

Local Titles: A Little Boy Lost His Ball, A Little Boy Threw His Ball (Boss) So High, Fair Scotland, Hugh of Lincoln, It Rained a Mist, Little Harry Hughes, Little Sir Hugh, Sir Hugh (of Lincoln), The Jeweler's Daughter, The Jew's Daughter, The Jew's Garden, The Jew's Lady, The Two Playmates.

Story Types: A: Some little boys are playing ball, usually in the rain. One tosses tie ball into the Jew's garden where no one dares go. However, the Jew's daughter invites the scared boy in. After enticing him to accept her invitation with a red apple, cherry, etc., she takes him to a remote part of the house. There she sticks him with pins, stabs him like a sheep, etc. Sometimes, he sees his nurse inside the house picking a chicken, but she pays no attention to his plight. In some endings the "the Bible-at-the-head and prayer book-at-the-feet" motif appears, and the boy requests that his mother be told he is asleep and his playmates be told that he is dead. In certain texts, the body is thrown in a well.

Examples: Belden (A), Cox (A), Davis (A).

B: The story is similar to that of Type A. However, the mother sets out to find her missing boy in the end of these ballads. She locates his body in the well, talks to him miraculously, and sometimes has his body even more miraculously returned to her.

Examples: Child (G, N); JAFL, LII, 43; SharpK (B, F).

C: The story is similar to that of Type A. However, the dialogue between the Jew's daughter and the boy is left out, and the youth volunteers to climb the wall. There is no woman, only "they".

Discussion: This ballad is founded on an incident that may have occurred in 1255. Child, III, 235 states the story as told in the Annals of Waverly in this manner:

A boy in Lincoln, named Hugh, was crucified by the Jews in contempt of Christ, with various preliminary tortures. To conceal the act from the Christians, the body,  when taken from the cross, was thrown into a running stream; but the water would not endure the wrong done its maker, and immediately ejected it upon dry land. The  body was then buried in the earth, but was found above dry ground the next day.  The guilty parties were now very much frightened and quite at their wit's end; as a last resort they threw the corpse into a drinking well. The body was seen floating on the water, and, upon its being drawn up, the hands and feet were found to be pierced,  the head had, as it were, a crown of bloody points, and there were various other
wounds : from all which it was plain that this was the work of the abominable Jews.  A blind woman, touching the bier on which the blessed martyr's corpse was carrying  to the church, received her sight, and many other miracles followed. Eighteen Jews,
convicted of the crime, and confessing it with their own mouth, were hanged.

Further references to Matthew Paris and The Annals of Burton are given by Child on pp. 235 and 237.

The concept of Our Lady, used by Chaucer in The Prioress's Tale, has vanished in America. Our Lady's drawwell is just a well, the mother is just  a sorrowing mother, and the religious note is almost forgotten. See SFLQ 9  VIII, 154 (Fla.) where the girl is a jeweler's daughter. Walter M. Hart,  English Popular Ballad, 30 I compares Chaucer and the ballad as representatives of the artistic and folk forms of one story. Summers, The  History of Witchcraft and Demonology, 195 relates the legend with black
magic.

The American Story Types A and B follow the Child groups K-O and  A-F respectively, while Type C is a degeneration. Reference should be made to Foster Gresham (JAFL, XLVI, 385 f f .) for a discussion of textual variation  in action. He uses two versions of Child 155, one taken from a little girl and  the other taken from her grandmother who taught the song to her.

Brewster (Sid Sgs Ind) 's A version tells of a "duke's daughter" and a  "mother's maid" (nurse) in the house, while his C version makes the day  sunny. Note also the "king's daughter" of Randolph, Oz F-S, B and the "gypsy" of Henry, F-S So Hgblds, B. In SharpK, Eng F-S Aplckns, D and E the Jewess calls Hugh her little son, which is baffling. The Jew is a man in Hudson, Spec Miss F-L, 7. And the Bahaman version, printed by Parsons,  JAFL, XLI, 470, is corrupted and confused even to the extent of having the boy promise to marry Barbary Ellen when he grows up. The real story has vanished.

Hudson, F-S Miss, 116 notes that his version (with the bloody stanzas omitted) has been used as a lullaby to sing children to sleep. Newell, Games  and Sgs Am Children, 75 prints a New York (from Ireland) version which, has become a child's game. See Child N for the same text.
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 Missing versions:

AS I WALKED OUT ONE HIGH HOLIDAY (This is Ruth Seeger's version- is it traditional?)
Source Seeger, American Folk Songs for Children (1948) p.89 
Performer  
Place collected USA : Virginia 
Collector  

As I Walked Out One Holiday -Ruth Crawford Seeger 1948
Peggy Seeger - Mike Seeger Recording

1. As I walked out one holiday,
The flakes of snow did fall.
And all the children in the school
Were out a-playing ball.

2. A little boy threw his ball so high,
He threw his ball so low,
He threw it in a dusky garden
Among the blades of snow.

3. Out came the neighbor’s youngest daughter
All dressed in fairy green.
“Come in, come in, my lad,” she said,
“You may have your ball again.”

IT RAINED A MIST
Source Seeger, American Folk Songs for Children (1948) p.68 
Performer  
Place collected USA : Virginia    

ONCE IN THE MONTH OF MAY
Source Wilgus: Kentucky Folklore Record 3:3 (1957) pp.92-93 
Performer French, Anna 
Place collected USA : Kentucky : Princeton 
Collector Kirn, Marjorie  

IT RAINED A MIST IT RAINED A MIST (unavailable)
Source Combs, Folk-Songs of the Southern United States (1967) p.205 item 31(b) 
Performer Stalnaker, Wise 
Place collected USA : W. Virginia : Clarksburg 
Collector Combs, Josiah H. / Woofter, Carey 

IT RAINED A MIST IT RAINED A MIST (unavailable)
Source Combs, Folk-Songs of the Southern United States (1967) p.205 item 31(c) 
Performer Power, F.R. 
Place collected USA : W. Virginia : Hampshire County 
Collector Combs, Josiah H. / Woofter, Carey 

JEW'S GARDEN, THE
Source E.C. Beck Collection (Clarke Historical Lib, Central Michigan Univ) [Misc Ballads Collected Orally p.38] 
Performer  
Place collected USA : Michigan? 
Collector Beck, Earl Clifton    

JEW'S GARDEN, THE
Source Library of Congress recording 66 B3 
Performer Gant, Mrs. Maggie 
Place collected USA : Texas : Austin 
Collector Lomax, John A. & Alan  

LITTLE SIR HUGH
Source Library of Congress recording 1415 A3 
Performer Harris, Mrs. A.M. 
Place collected USA : Kentucky : Pine Mountain 
Collector Lomax, Alan & Elizabeth 

LITTLE SIR HUGH
Source Library of Congress recording 870 B2 
Performer Dusenbury, Mrs. Emma 
Place collected USA : Arkansas : Mena 
Collector Lomax, John A. / Laurence Powell 

LITTLE SIR HUGH
Source Library of Congress recording 1414 B 
Performer Turner, Sallie Belle 
Place collected USA : Kentucky : Harlan 
Collector Lomax, Alan & Elizabeth  

LITTLE SON HUGH
Source Library of Congress recording 1448 B2 
Performer Feltner, May & Dovey 
Place collected USA : Kentucky : Hyden 
Collector Lomax, Alan & Elizabeth 

LITTLE SON HUGHES
Source Library of Congress recording 3170 B1 
Performer Marlor, I.N. 
Place collected USA : N. Carolina : Boyd's Cove 
Collector Robertson, Sidney 

JEWELER'S DAUGHTER, THE
Source Killion & Waller, Treasury of Georgia Folklore (1972) pp.258-259 
Performer  
Place collected USA : Georgia  

IT RAINED A MIST
Source West Virginia Folklore 3:2 (Winter 1952) pp.20-21 
Performer Welch, Mrs. 
Place collected USA : W. Virginia 

IT RAINED A MIST
Source West Virginia Folklore 9:2 (Winter 1959) pp.20-21 
Performer Rogers, Mrs. Zona 
Place collected USA : W. Virginia : Newton 
Collector Tawney, Mrs. G.G. 

IT RAINED ALL DAY
Source West Virginia Folklore 5:2 (Winter 1955) pp.26-27 
Performer Glasscock, Mrs. Howard 
Place collected USA : W. Virginia : Wetzel County 
Collector Musick, Ruth Ann 

SIR HUGH; or, THE JEW'S DAUGHTER
Source Anderson: Tennessee Folklore Soc. Bulletin 8:3 (1942) p.76 
Performer Miller, Mrs. Joe 
Place collected USA : Tennessee : Walland 
Collector  
Roud number 73  | Roud number search

I WILL COME IN
Source Jean Thomas Coll. (Dwight Anderson Music Lib, Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky) Box 4A folder 196 
Performer Proctor, Edith Miller 
Place collected USA : Kentucky 
Collector Thomas, Jean  

IT RAINED A MIST
Source Mike Yates Collection: British Library National Sound Archive C 796/172 (VWML 44 CDA Yates) 
Performer Tate, Dan 
Place collected USA : Virginia : Fancy Gap 
Collector Yates, Mike  

 A version of Sir Hugh, learned from his mother by Mr. Clyde Fitch, was introduced by him into his play, The Girl and the Judge, first performed in the Lyceum Theatre, New York, February 24, 1902.

[Indiana Folklore - Volumes 2-3 - Page 89; 1969
. . . H-3 of Indiana calls him "one of the Blue Drum Boys" and entitles the ballad 'The Blue Drum Boy."81 Indiana H-8 has an alternate title— "The Minstrel Boy."

S.H.119: Hippensteel, Ind. Folklore. I I , pp.105-106 (H), tune p.118; 'The Blue (Dew) Drum Boy', sung by Mr. Shirley Burpo, M a r t i n s v i l l e , Ind., May 1965 and 22 November 1968; learned from his f a t h e r , aged over 70; 7 stas., w i t h tune (of Bronson group C type).
S.H.120: i b i d . , pp.107-109 (H - 4) and tune, pp.119-120; 'The Jew's Garden', sung by Mrs. Clara C o r y e l l , formerly of Jackson County, Ind., 9 February 1965, May 1965 and 14 December 1967; Mrs. Coryell learned the b a l l a d c.1906-1908 from her aunt's husband, James Costin of Austin, who l i v e d near her home; 7 stas., with tune (of Bronson group C t y p e ).
S.H.121: i b i d . , pp.110-111 (H - 5 ) , tune p.121; ' I t Rained A l l Day', sung by Mrs. Wallace Harrod o f F l a t r o c k , Ind., w i t h her s i s t e r s, 2 February 1965 and 1 November 1967; the song has "always been in the f a m i l y " ; 7 stas., w i t h tune (of Bronson group C type); begins, " I t rained a l l day, i t rained a l l night".
S.H.122: i b i d . , pp.111-113 (H - 6 ) , tune p.121; 'The Jew's Garden', sung by Mrs. Robert Jackson of Anderson, Ind., and her mother, Mrs. Van T i l b u r y , on 2 November 1967; Mrs. Jackson learned the song from her father, George W. Van T i l b u r y , who learned it from his mother, Louisa Hollenbeck of Zanesville, Ohio (born 23 June 1845); 8 stas., w i t h tune (of Bronson group C type).
S.H.123:' ibid.., pp.113-114 (H - 7 ) ; 'It Rained A Mist', sung by Mrs. Roy Peters (Lula M. Young Peters) of Lafayette on
18 February 1965; learned c.1902 from her mother, nee Bowers; Mrs. Peters died before the tune could be recorded; 7 stas.,
without tune.
S.H.124: ibid., pp.115-116 (H - 8 ) , tune p.122; 'It Rained All Day and It Rained All Night' (f i r s t l i n e) , or 'The Minstrel Boy'; sung by Mrs. Richard Steuerwald of M a r t i n s v i l le , Ind. on 2 February and i n May 1965; Mrs. Steuerwald learned the ballad from her mother; 8 stas., with tune (of Bronson group C type).