Golden China Tree- (IN) 1976 Nettl LOC REC
[Transcription of first verse with music, "The Golden Vanity," Anglo-American Ballad, by B. Nettl on p. 67, in Folk Music in the United States, an Introduction, Wayne State Univ. Press, 3rd. Ed., 1976. This may be viewed online (Google books). No date or informant named.
The Golden China Tree- Library of Congress 1740AI, Indiana
There was a little ship,
It sailed upon the sea;
The name of that ship was the Golden China Tree.
As she sailed on the lone, lonesome low.
As she sailed on the lonesome sea.