Young Hunting- Deeton (NC) 1918 Sharp N
[Sharp's generic title. From English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, 1932 (Sharp/Karpeles). Notes from the 1932 edition follow.
R. Matteson 2012, 2014]
Notes from the 1932 Edition: No. 18. Young Hunting.
Texts without tunes: — Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, No. 68. Cox's Folk Songs of the South, p. 42 (see also further references). Journal of American Folk-Lore, XX. 252.
Texts with tunes: — Child, v. 416. Reed Smith's South Carolina Ballads, p. 107. Journal of American Folk-Lore, xviii. 295 (tune only); XXX. 289. British Ballads from Maine, p. 122. Davis's Traditional Ballads of Virginia, pp. 182 and 566. Sandburg's American Songbag, p. 64. Compare And you shall have the cheers of the cheer cold girl' of D. 4 with 'Ye shall hae cheer, an charcoal clear' in Child's version K 4. Tune H, with text of version G, is published with pianoforte accompaniment in Folk Songs of English Origin, 1st Series.
N. Young Hunting- Sung by Mrs. CLERGY DEETON at Mine Fork, Burnsville, N. C , Sept. 19, 1918; Sharp N
1. Come in, come in, my own true love,
And stay all night with me;
For I have a bed and a very fine bed,
I'll give it up to thee,
I'll give it up to thee.
2 I can't come in, nor I won't come in
And stay all night with thee,
For I have a wife in the old Scotland
This night a-looking for me.
3 She took her knife all in her hand,
She pierced him near his heart,
She cried out all over this town:
There's a dead man in my house.
4 She was sitting in her parlour door,
Lamenting what she'd done,
She saw a bird and a very pretty bird
All among the leaves so green.
5 I'll go and get my bow and arrow,
My arrow and my string;
I'll shoot through your tender little heart
All among the leaves so green.
6 While you're gone for your bow and arrow.
Your arrow and your string,
I'll fly away to the heavens above
Where I'll never no more be seen.