The Two Brothers- Sloan (KY) 1917 Sharp H
[Not necessarily a local title. From Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles: English Folk songs from the Southern Appalachians; Oxford, 1932.
R. Matteson 2012, 2014]
H. The Two Brothers. Sung by Mrs. SUDIE SLOAN at Barbourville, Knox Co., Ky., May 6, 1917
(No 4th or 6th.)
Two little boys were going to school,
O very fine boys were they;
On Sunday evening they come home,
On Monday they go away.
There's no little fishes in the brook,
And no little girls to mourn,
But Willie will sigh and mourn for me
When I am dead and gone.
O tell our loving mother,
What a change to see;
Just tell her I'm gone to the golden land
My prayer-books for to learn.