Miller's Apprentice- Berry Creech (KY) 1917 Sharp D
[Single stanza with music. From: English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians Collected by Cecil J. Sharp and Olive Dame Campbell. Edited by Maud Karpeles; Volume I, 1932. The 1932 edition notes follow.
R Matteson 2016]
No. 71. The Miller's Apprentice or The Oxford Tragedy
Texts without tunes :—W. R. Mackenzie's Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia, No. 115. Cox's Folk Songs from the South, p. 311 (see also further references). Journal of American Folk-Lore, xxxix. 125.
Texts with tunes :—Journal of the Folk-Song Society, vii. 23 and 44. Version E is closely allied to the English tune, which now is a popular hymn in the English Hymnal.
D. "The Miller's Apprentice." Sung by Mrs. BERRY CREECH at Greasy Creek, Pine Mountain, Harlan Co., Ky., Aug. 31, 1917
Pentatonic. Mode i.
When I was the prettiest boy,
About thirteen years of age,
My father bound me to a millinder[1],
That I might learn a trade.
1. miller