US/Canada Versions of "WHO WILL SHOE"
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[Attached to the main page (left-hand column) and following this page are the US/Canada versions of "Who will shoe?" which are sometimes a single stanza or as many as 4 stanzas as found, for example, in Child A, 'Fair Isabell of Rochroyall' from E. Cochrane's Songbook, p. 151, No. 114:
18 'O who will shoe my bony foot?
Or who will glove my hand?
Or who will bind my midle jimp
With the broad lilly band?
19 'Or who will comb my bony head
With the red river comb?
Or who will be my bairn's father
Ere Gregory he come home?'
20 'O I's gar shoe thy bony foot,
And I's gar glove thy hand,
And I's gar bind thy midle jimp
With the broad lilly band.
21 'And I's gar comb thy bony head
With the red river comb;
But there is none to be thy bairn's father
Till Love Gregory he come home.
Similarly it's found in many US version sometimes as a single stanza (Sandburg A):
O, who will shoe your pretty little foot,
And who will glove your hand,
And who will kiss your ruby lips
When I've gone to the foreign land?
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My Lady's Slipper- Sharpes (WV) c.1850 Cox B
Come Along My Pretty Little Miss- (VA) 1898 Child