Your Father's Gold- (VA) c1935 Wilkinson MS
[From Wilkinson's notebook MS 1935-36, p. 6 (B) single stanza with music; no date or informant listed, Bronson 122.
Winston Wilkinson worked with Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. collecting and transcribing ballads, fiddle tunes and songs in the 1930s. "In March of 1934 Davis was able to obtain some funding from the Civil Works Administration, one of the Depression-generated New Deal programs. With that assistance he hired John Stone to collect folksongs and Winston Wilkinson to transcribe music." Wilkinson also contributed his article “Virginia Dance Tunes” to Southern Folklore Quarterly in March 1942. Davis also published More Traditional Ballads of Virginia in 1960 with Winston Wilkinson's transcriptions. Wilkinson also illustrated "Virginia Fiddle Tunes."
R. Matteson 2014]
[Your Father's Gold] (Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight)- Wilkinson MS., 1935-36, p. 6 (B)
Go bring me a portion of your father's gold
And some of your mother's fee;
Go bring me your father's choice horse
That stands on sixty-three, my love,
That stands on sixty-three.