I'll Hang My Harp- Amy Henderson (NC) 1916 Brown
[From Brown Collection Vol. III, 1952. Two versions of "Hang my Harp" are given but the B version is one stanza. The stanzas of the Brown's A version of "I'll Hang My Harp" has the "shoe/glove" stanzas found in Child 76. The Adieu chorus is found in "There is a Tavern."
R. Matteson 2017]
A. 'I'll Hang My Harp on a Willow Tree.' Contributed by Miss Amy Henderson of Worry, Burke county; not dated, but at some time before 1916. Note that the rhythm of lines 1 and 5 has been changed from that found in these stanzas elsewhere.
1 'Oh! who's going to shoe my pretty little foot, foot, foot,
And who's going to glove my lily-white hand,
And who's going to kiss my ruby lips
When you're in a far distant land?'
Chorus: Adieu, kind friends, adieu, adieu.
I stay no longer here with you.
I'll hang my harp on a willow tree
And go for the fellow that goes for me.
2 'My Pa's going to shoe my pretty little foot, foot, foot.
My Ma's going to glove my lily-white hand;
I know who'll kiss my ruby lips
When I'm in a far distant land.'