He Tuk A Sheep's Skin- Harmon (TN) 1930 Henry
Folk Songs from the Southern Highlands - A Collection Of Traditional Folk Songs & Ballads, Collected & Edited By Mellinger Edward Henry, c 1933
27 THE WIFE WRAPT IN WETHER'S SKIN (Child, No. 277)
For American texts, see Barry-Eckstorm-Smyth, p. 322; Belden, No. 12; Brown, p. 9; Campbell and Sharp, No. 33; Cox, No. 29; Davis, No. 45; Flanders and Brown, p. 224; Hudson, No. 21; Pound, Ballads, No. 6; Shearin and Combs, p. 8; Journal, XIX, 298 (Belden); XXX, 328 (Kittredge); XXXIX, 109 (Hudson). Cf. Sharp, Songs, I, No. 6.
Obtained from Mrs. Samuel Harmon, August 12, 1930, who remembered only a few lines but said that she used to sing the song.
1. He tuk a sheep's skin
To the old woman's back;
He tuk two little sticks
And he made it crack.
Come a lu ...........