3A. Springfield Mountain- Hill (MA) 1878
3A - SPRINGFIELD MOUNTAIN*
Contributed by Perley Dunn Aldrioh, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 21, 1925. tearned from !1r. Arthur Hill ln Flornco, Massachusotts about 1878.
On Springfield Mountain there did dwell
A comely youth, I knew him well;
As ho wont to mow into a field,
A pesky sarpent bit his heeld.
Ri-tooe To-Iooe ri-loo.
He took the sarpent in his hand,
And forth he went to !{ary Brand;
trO Molly, Mo1ly, here you so
The pesky sarpent that blt meorl
Ri-tooe ro-1oo; ri-loo.
In 3A the ms.readlng for line 3 is as indicated 'bit his heeld'
for regular text,
and 'bit him on the heald' in the
music text
(Heraog).
*text incomplerte.