Butcher Boy- Bernice Voege (IO) c.1931 Stout E
[Single stanza from Folklore from Iowa, collected and edited by Earl J. Stout, 1936. His notes follow. Practically all of the material in this collection was gathered during the fall and winter of 1931.
R. Matteson 2017]
THE BUTCHER BOY. For reference, see Cox, No. 145; Mackenzie, Quest of the Ballad, p. 9; Pound, No. 24; Sandburg, p. 324; Hudson, p. 31; Journal, XXIX, 169; XXXI, 73; XXXV, 360; XXXIX, 122; XLV, 72.
E. "The Butcher Boy." Contributed by Bernice Voege, Reinbeck.
1. In Jersey City where I did dwell
A Butcher Boy I loved so well;
He courted me my heart away
And then with me he would not stay.