Fair Scotland- Gump (PA) 1929 Bayard/Korson
[From Pennsylvania Songs and Legends by Korson; 1949. Korson's notes (not added) begin with the this statement: "The very old tale of Sir Hugh, or the Jew's Daughter has always been exceedingly popular in Pennsylvania." Although it has been found in Pennsylvania, the ballad is certainly not popular. Shoemaker, for example, never found it.
R. Matteson 2015]
Fair Scotland- Sung by Perry Gump in Greene County, 1929. Recorded by Samuel P. Bayard.
1. There was some children in fair Scotland
A-playing at school ball.
2.They throwed their ball so high, so high,
They throwed their ball so low;
They throwed their ball in the Jew's garden
Where no one dares for to go.
3. One of the Jew's daughters came out,
Her doddle [1] all dressed in green:
Come in, come in, you little Sir Hugh,
And get your ball again.
4. I will not do it, I shall not do it,
Without my schoolmates all,
For if I would, my mammy would whip
Till the red blood down would fall.
5. She showed him an apple so round, so round,
She showed him a cherry so red;
And then she showed him a gay gold ring
Which enticed this poor boy in.
6. She tuck him by his little hand
And led him through the room,
And then she led him in the kitchen,
And there he saw his own dear nurse[2]
A-cooking of a chicken.
7. And then she says, I'll do more for you
Than any of your kin:
I'll scour this basin of the bright silver
To ketch your heart's blood in.
8. She laid him on her lap, her lap,
And fed him sugar sweet,
And then she laid him on her dressing board,
And stuck him like a sheep.
1 daughter
2 Fourth line is sung to music of third line.