Six Pretty Maids- Bozarth (NJ) 1939 REC Halpert
[My title. Text from: Toward the Indexing of Ballad Texts by George List; The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 81, No. 319 (Jan. - Mar., 1968), pp. 44-61.
These are the only stanzas provided by List- I don't have the recording.
R. Matteson 2014]
Six Pretty Maids- ATM X ATL 480.I. No title. Sung by Frelen G. Bozarth, Hainesport, New Jersey, July 30, 1939. Collected by Herbert Halpert.
1. "Lie there, lie there, you false-hearted one,
Lie there instead of me,
For if six pretty maids you've drownded here
While the seventh one drownded thee."
2. "Now hold your tongue, my pretty parrot,
And tell no tales on me,
And your cage shall be made of very best of gold
And the door of the best ivory.