Silver Dagger- Reba Dooley (VA) 1918 Sharp MS
[Single stanza with music from Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge). Collected by Cecil J. Sharp.
This is a stanza of the composed "missing" print version titled Silver Dagger; Sharp No. 157 EFSSA II.
R. Matteson 2016]
[Silver Dagger] - Sung by Reba Dooley of Villamont, Virginia on June 4, 1918. Collector: Cecil J. Sharp.
But when her parents came to know,
That to break it off they both did try,
Said, Son O son, don't be so foolish
For she's too poor to be your bride.