Sweet William- Laura Beckett (VA) 1918 Sharp MS
[Single stanza with music from: Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) (CJS2/10/4444).
R. Matteson 2017]
Sweet William- sung by Laura Beckett of Callaway, Virginia on 16 August, 1918.
O captain, O captain, tell me true,
Does my sweet William sail with you?
O no madam, he's not here,
he's drowned in the gulf below I fear.