Lord Joshuay- Boone (NC) 1918 Sharp J
[My title, for Lord Judges. 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.
J. [Lord Joshuay] Sung by Mrs. SINA BOONE at Shoal Creek, Burnsville, N. C, Sept. 28, 1918
Hexatonic (no 6th).
Lord Josh-u-ay[1], she cried,
Let's wait awhile and see,
For I think I hear my dear true love
Come wand'ring over the sea.
My dear true love,
Have you any gold for me,
Or silver to buy me free,
Or have you come to see me hung
On yonders gallows tree?
I've got some gold for you
And silver to buy you free,
For I have come to marry you
And take you home with me.
1. Lord Judges