Died for Love- Sina Boone (NC) 1918 Sharp D
[My title. Single stanza with music from English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachian, II, 1932 by Cecil Sharp with versions by Campbell, edited and text by Karpeles.
This is another text that may never be known since it wasn't taken down-- except for the last verse to which Sharp wrote the melody.
R. Matteson 2017]
D. [Died for Love] The Brisk Young Lover- Sung by Mrs. SINA BOONE at Shoal Creek, Burnsville, N. C, Sept, 28, 1918. Heptatonic. Dorian.
O mother, O mother, go dig my grave,
Dig it both wide and deep,
And on my breast place a little turtle dove,
For to show the world I died for love.