Georgie (Geordie)- Boone (NC) 1918 Sharp F
[My title. From: English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians- 1932. Sharp used the generic title supplied by Child: Geordie. The title for this version should be "Georgie." Many of the US versions are related in part or wholly to Child's Appendix to Geordie, the broadside, "George of Oxford," and similar British broadsides.
Sharp presented only the tune with one verse since he felt the text was poor or better shown in other versions.
R. Matteson 2013]
Notes by Sharp: No. 34. Geordie.
Texts without tunes:—Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, No. 209. Gavin Greig's Folk-Song of the North-East, i, art. 75. Broadside by Such. Cox's Folk Songs of the South, p. 135. Journal of American Folk-Lore, xxxii. 504. Davis's Traditional Ballads of Virginia, p. 435.
Texts with tunes :—Christie's Traditional Ballad Airs, i. 53. Journal of the Folk- Song Society, ii. 27, 208 ; iii. 191 ; iv. 332. Kidson's Traditional Tunes, p. 25. L. Broadwood's Traditional Songs and Carols, p. 32. Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 187 and tune. Folk-Songs of England, ii, p. 47. Folk Songs from Somerset, No. 2 (also published in English Folk Songs, Selected Edition, I. 24, and One Hundred English Folk-Songs, p. 24), Gavin Greig's Last Leaves, No 62. Scots Musical Museum, iii, No. 346.
F. ["Georgie."]- Sung by MRS, JULIE BOONE at Micaville, N. C , Oct. 3, 1918; Pentatonic. Mode 4. Sharp F
1. She rode up in the Courthouse yard
Lawyer's money plenty.
Fee your selves if it takes it all
To save the life of my Georgie.
2 It's rise up George, and plead for yourself,
For I cannot plead any longer.
Your own confession's hang-ed you,
The Lord have mercy on me.
3 It's I've not robbed no store-houses,
Nor done any murder,
But I stole sixteen of the king's fair steeds,
And I stole them in I-O-Bandy.
4 The own free cash was paid in my hand,
It all be paid in style-ee,
The own free cash was paid in my hand
To save the life of my Georgie.