Rach's Spinning Song- Hinkle (WV) 1957 Musick
[From: Ballads and Folksongs from West Virginia. 2. Songs 8.-26. by Ruth Ann Musick The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 70, No. 278 (Oct. - Dec., 1957), pp. 336-357.
R. Matteson 2012, 2014]
16. "Rach's Spinning Song" (Sir Lionel, Child 18)
I6.1. Contributed by Mrs. Audrey Jarvis Hinkle of Fairmont and so titled because she learned it from her grandmother's Negro spinning woman (see Ex. 22. for tune, including chorus).
(1) As I went down to the old boar's den,
Hi double 0.
I saw the bones of a thousand men,
Hi double O.
(2) The king went forth with all his men,
Hi double O.
He marched right up to the wild boar's den,
Hi double O.
(3) The queen, she wept and wrung her hands,
Hi double O.
He came not forth from the wild boar's den,
Hi double O.
(4) Now, we all a-mournin' stand,
Hi double O.
There is no king in all the land,
Hi double O.