The Farmer's Curst Wife- Morgan (KY) 1917 Sharp G
[I've kept Sharp's generic title. Sharp only included one verse of text because he found the text inferior to other versions he collected. Compare to text F.]
From: English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians II, 1932
Notes from 1917 edition:
No. 34. The Farmer's Curst Wife.
Texts without tunes:—Child, No. 278.
Texts with tunes:—Journal of the Folk-Song Society, ii., 184; iii., 131. Dick's Songs of Robert Burns, No. 331. American variants:—Journal of American Folk-Lore, xix., 298; xxvii., 68.
Lomax's Cowboy Songs, p. 110.
"Bell, blubs," stanza 10, version A, may be a corruption of "Beelzebubs." Most of the published versions of this song have whistling refrains.
G. The Farmer's Curst Wife- Sung by Mr. WILLIAM MORGAN at Short Creek, Hyden, Leslie Co., Ky., Oct. 5, 1917 Hexatonic (no 3rd).
1. There was an old man lived under the hill,
If he ain't moved away he's living there still,
Sing ti ro ratteling day.