Bluegrass Messengers

[What Is the Blood?] Edward- McCord (Missouri) 1958 Hunter A

[My title. One of four versions in the Max Hunter Folk Song Collection]

[What Is the Blood?]- As sung by May Kennedy McCord, Springfield, Missouri on September 23, 1958; Max Hunter Folk Song Collection

Listen: http://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=0243

VERSE 1
What is that blood, on the point of your knife
O son, come telling to me
It is the blood of my old guienie sow
Who ate the corn for me

VERSE 2
O, what is that blood, on the point of your knife
O son, come telling to me
It is the blood of my ole gray hound
That ran 'round th merry tree

VERSE 3
No blood is so red from an ole gray hound
O son, come telling to me
What is that blood, on the point of your knife
O son, come telling to me

VERSE 4
What is that blood, on th point of your knife
O son, come telling to me
It is the blood of my brother dear
O Mother, pity me

VERSE 5
What did you boys quarrel about
O son, come telling to me
We fought about a merry bush
That might have been a tree

VERSE 6
What will you do when your Father comes home
O son, come telling to me
I'll set my foot in a bunken boat
And sail far over the sea

VERSE 7
What will you do with your two little babes
O son, come telling to me
I'll leave my two little babes with you
To dandle on your knee

VERSE 8
What will you do with your pretty little wife
O son, come telling to me
I'll leave my wife with you, Mother dear
O, I'm going far over th sea