House Carpenter- Collins (NC) 1962 Foss

House Carpenter- Collins (NC) 1962 Foss; Bronson 112.

[Single stanza with music from LC/AAFS, rec. no. 12,006 (A30) in Bronson's TTCB III, 1966; no. 112.  I assume there's more text somewhere.

R. Matteson 2013]

 "House Carpenter"- Sung by Rebecca Jane Collins, Mount Airy, NC, July 1962 collected by George Foss; m M (inflected VII)

If you will leave your house carpenter,
And go along with me,
I will take you to where the grass grows green,
On the banks of the sweet Murree.