Sweet Willie- Bertha Bryant (VA) 1918 Sharp MS
[My title. Single stanza with music from: Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) (CJS2/10/4399),
R. Matteson 2017]
Sweet Willie- sung by Bertha Bryant of Peaks of Otter, Virginia on July 17, 1918.
Father, father, build me a boat
Across the ocean I may float,
Ev'ry ship I pass by,
There I may here Sweet Willie cry.