Said Billie to Jimmie, Take my Fine Shirt- Jacobs (Wisconsin) 1938
[Fragment from: Kentucky Folksong in Northern Wisconsin by Asher E. Treat; The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 52, No. 203 (Jan. - Mar., 1939), pp. 1-51.
R. Matteson 2012, 2104]
35. SAID BILLIE TO JIMMIE, TAKE MY FINE SHIRT
Sung by Mrs. M. G. Jacobs and by Pearl Jacobs Borusky, July 13, 1938. Cf. Sharp, The Two Brothers. Mrs. Jacobs learned this song from William Hagerman of West Virginia. The word "sounder", it was explained, means a hunting horn.
[Said Billy to Jimmy, "Take my fine shirt,
Tear it from gore to gore,
And bind it upon my deadly wound."
But it still bled more and more.]
"Bury my bow and my arrow at my side,
And my sounder at my feet."