Three Fair Maids- Hall (NL) 1929 Karpeles C

Three Fair Maids- Hall (NL) 1929 Karpeles C

[My title, single stanza with music- other stanzas not given. Version C is listed under “The Bonny Banks of Virgie-O”  from Folk Songs from Newfoundland by Maud Karpeles, collected in 1929.

R. Matteson 2012, 2014]

C. [Three Fair Maids]
Sung by Mrs. Bridget (Robt.) Hall at North River, Conception Bay, October 16th, 1929.

Three fair maids went out one day,
All a lee and a lonely O.
They met a robber on the way,
On the bonny, bonny banks of the Virgie O.