Deep Blue Sea- Olga Trail (AR) 1941 Randolph B

Deep Blue Sea- Olga Trail (AR) 1941 Randolph B

[Single stanza (only one given) from Ozark Folksongs by Vance Randolph c.1950. This stanza is also found in the Carter Family version.

R. Matteson 2017]


DEEP BLUE SEA - single stanza sung by Olga Trail of Farmington Arkansas, October 9, 1941, not found in Randolph, version A.

My mother is dead and buried,
My father’s forsaken me,
And I have no one to love me,
But my sailor on the deep blue sea.