Fair Elinar- Fisher (IO-TN) 1866 Stout B
[My title. From: Folklore from Iowa, collected and edited by Earl J. Stout, 1936. Notes edited.
R. Matteson 2014]
B. "Fair Elinar" Contributed by Dwight Davis Corydon, who wrote. "I obtained this song from my grandfather who heard it from Miss Lillie Fisher who was from Jefferson County, Iowa and originally from East Tennessee. A folk-song which probably their ancestors brought from England. It was sung in 1866."
1. Come riddle my rights dear father, he said.
Come riddle my rights for me;
Say shall I marry fair Elinar
So bring the Brown girl home."
2. The Brown girl, she has house and land,
Fair Elinar she has none,
Therefore, I charge you with my blessing
To bring the Brown girl home.
(The rest of the song not remembered. )