Expert Girl- Sanford Hughston (MS) 1926 Hudson C
[From: Ballads and Songs from Mississippi- Arthur Palmer Hudson The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 39, No. 152 (Apr. - Jun., 1926), pp. 93-194. His notes follow.
R. Matteson 2016]
20. THE WEXFORD GIRL
C. "The Expert Girl." Communicated by Mr. Sanford R. Hughston, principal of the Courtland (Panola County, Mississippi) Public school, who obtained it from a pupil. Agrees substantially with the A and B texts, except that it possesses a stanza explaining the motive for the murder, as follows:
3. Another boy sat by her side
And held her hand in his,
And said, "Oh, dear, how glad I'll be
When you and I are wed."