Little Silver Cup- Jones (NC) 1918 Sharp I
[My title. Single stanza from English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians; 1932. Collected by Cecil J. Sharp (1859-1924) and Olive Dame Campbell. Edited by Maud Karpeles. Their notes follow.
R. Matteson 2015]
Notes: No. 24. The Maid Freed from the Gallows.
Texts without tunes:—Child, No. 95.
Texts with tunes:—English County Songs, p. 112. Folk Songs from Somerset, No. 121.
Journal of the Folk-Song Society, v., 228. American variants:—American Journal of Folk-Lore, xxi., 56; xxvi., 175. Musical
Quarterly, January, 1916, pp. 10 and 11 (without tunes). Wyman and Brockway's
Lonesome Tunes, p. 44.
I. [Little Silver Cup] Sung by Mrs. LAUREL JONES at Burnsville, N. C, Sept. 17, 1918
Hexatonic (no 6th).
O father, have you brought me any gold,
Silver to pay my fee?
I have stolen a little silver cup,
And it's hang-ed I must be.