A Knight and a Lady Bride- McDanel (OK) 1964 Moore B
[Single stanza with music from: Ballads and Folk Songs of the Southwest- Moores, 1964. The Moores notes follow.
R. Matteson 2015]
The Wife of Usher's Well (Child, No. 79) is unusually well preserved in Oklahoma, both in texts and tunes. "Nothing that we have is more profoundly affecting," writes Child in II, 239. For a fragment of an early text, see Motherwell, I, 270-72, and for traditional texts and references, consult the following: Arnold, 56-61; Belden, 55-57; Brewster, 97-98; Cox, 89-93; Davis, 279-99; Eddy, 46-47; Hudson, 93-95; Journal, vol. XIII, 119 (Newell), vol. XXIII 429 (Belden), vol. xxx, 305 (Kittredge) and 503 (Richardson), Vol. XXXIX, 96; McGill, 5; Morris, 279-83; Owens, 32-34; Pound, 19; Randolph, I, 122-24; Scarborough, Song Catcher, 167-69; and Sharp, I, 150-60.
B. A Knight and a Lady Bride was sung by Mrs. E. R. McDanel, Norman. Mrs. McDanel was born at Imboden, Arkansas.
There was a knight and his lady bride,
Children they had but three,
She sent them away to the northern states all,
For to learn their grammeree.