Milk-White Steed- Creech (KY) 1917 Sharp K

Milk-White Steed- Creech (KY) 1917 Sharp K

[My title replacing the generic Child title. I thought about using the abbreviated first line- "He Mounted Her" but thought better of it. From English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, Sharp/Karpeles 1932.

R. Matteson 2014]



K. [Milk-White Steed]- Sung by Mr. TILFORD CREECH at Pine Mountain, Harlan Co., Ky., Aug. 30, 1917
Pentatonic. Mode 2.

He mounted her on a milk-white steed,
And himself on an iron grey;
He swung his bugle 'round his neck,
And so went riding a way.
He swung his bugle round his neck,
And so went riding a way.