Our Goodman [You Old Fool]- Sloan (KY) 1917 Sharp E
[From: English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians; collected by Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil J. Sharp, 1917 and karpeles/Sharp 1932 edition (Version E)
The title Our Goodman is the generic title ascribed by Child. A local title is found in brackets.
R. Matteson Jr. 2013]
Sharp's notes- No. 32. Our Goodman:
Texts without tunes:—Child, No. 274. Ford's Vagabond Songs of Scotland, II, 31. Texts with tunes:—Songs of the West, 2d ed., No. 30. Chambers's Songs of Scotland Prior to Burns, p. 184. American variants:— Journal of American Folk-Lore, XVIII, 294. Musical Quarterly, January, 1916, p. 17 (tune only).
Our Goodman [You Old Fool]- Sung by Mrs. ALICE SLOAN at Barbourville, Knox Co., Ky., May 9, 1917; Sharp E
Pentatonic. Mode 3.
What's this man's horse a doing here without the leave of me?
You old fool, blind fool, can't you never see?
That's a little milk cow my mamma sent to me.
I've rambled, I've gambolled four hundred miles or more;
I never seed'd a milk-cow with a saddle on before.