It Rained a Mist- Pullen (RI) c.1961 Leach/Beck; Bronson 32
[My date (none given) and title. Fragment from LC/AAFS, rec. No. 9980 (A3). Collected by MacEdward and Horace Beck c.1961. Horace Beck was one of MacEdward Leach’s first graduate students in folklore at University of PA in 1962 (?).
R. Matteson 2015]
[It Rained a Mist] Sir Hugh - Sung by Rodney Pullen, Sperryville, R.I.
1. It rained a mist, it rained a mist,
It rained all over the land
And every boy [that] was into this town,
Went out to toss a ball a ball,
[Went out to toss a ball.]
2. At first they tossed it up too high.
And then again too low,
And then they cast it into the Jew's garding,
Where no one was da'st to go, to go,
Where no one da'st to go.