Oh Mother, Mother- Clark (NJ) 1907 Barry MS
[My title. From Barry MSS., II, No. 81(C); also IV, No. 85. Bronson 165.
R. Matteson 2015]
Oh Mother, Mother [Bonny Barbara Allen]- Sung by Mrs. Clark [Miss M. L. Clark], Vineland, N.J., March 1907; learned from her elder brother.
Oh mother, mother make my bed,
Make it long and narrow
For Jimmie dies for me today
And I'll die for him tomorrow.