Slowly Slowly Rose She Up- Godfrey(NC) 1917 Sharp
[My title. Single stanza with music as Bronson 93, from Sharp MSS., 4550. Notes from Sharp's diary follow. The date may be Sept. 4th.
R. Matteson 2015]
Sharp diary 1918 page 250. Wednesday 4 September 1918 - Marion
Upon my return home last night I felt very seedy and after dinner went to bed having a violent attack of dysentery & vomiting. Must have picked up some poison somewhere or other but as Maud had eaten exactly the same things as I had and was unaffected it was difficult to fix the cause. She went out & got some of Chisholm’s[?] mixture and gave me a very strong dose — it may have been that which made me so bad! Anyhow I stayed in bed for breakfast this morning and didn’t get up till pretty late. Had an early lunch and rest and then went out to see Mrs Godfrey. There we stayed quite a long time though what we got from her was rather disappointing — she has had her taste spoiled by modern music and owned that she couldn’t "carry a minor tune". I played her piano much to her delight and to that of her children. On the way home we called at Mrs Gibson’s and she sang me 2 or 3 songs which were worth all that Mrs Godfrey had sung to me! Thelma, Mrs Godfrey’s daughter, walked back with us a girl of 12 and said she went to school for the 6 months each year the school was open and then worked in the cotton mill for the remaining 6 months — 12 hours a day, 6 a.m. — 6 p.m. with one hour off — not bad, this, for America!
[Slowly Slowly Rose She Up/Barbara Allen]- Sung by Mrs. W. L. Godfrey and her daughter Louise (10 or 11), Marion, N.C., September 3, 1918. The variants a and b are from Louise. Sharp MSS., 4550/.
Slowly, slowly rose she up,
And slowly went she to him,
She slightly pulled the curtain back,
Saying: young man you are dying.