Young Hunting- Richards (NC) 1918 Sharp K
[Sharp's generic title, maybe "Old Scotland" would be better. Single stanza with music from English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, I, 1932 (Sharp/Karpeles). Notes from the 1932 edition follow.
R. Matteson 2014]
Notes from the 1932 Edition: No. 18. Young Hunting.
Texts without tunes: — Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, No. 68. Cox's Folk Songs of the South, p. 42 (see also further references). Journal of American Folk-Lore, XX. 252.
Texts with tunes: — Child, v. 416. Reed Smith's South Carolina Ballads, p. 107. Journal of American Folk-Lore, xviii. 295 (tune only); XXX. 289. British Ballads from Maine, p. 122. Davis's Traditional Ballads of Virginia, pp. 182 and 566. Sandburg's American Songbag, p. 64. Compare And you shall have the cheers of the cheer cold girl' of D. 4 with 'Ye shall hae cheer, an charcoal clear' in Child's version K 4. Tune H, with text of version G, is published with pianoforte accompaniment in Folk Songs of English Origin, 1st Series.
K. Young Hunting. Sung by Mrs. FRANCES RICHARDS
at St. Peter's School, Callaway, Va., Aug. 17, 1918
Pentatonic. Mode 3.
You needn't ride East, you needn't ride West,
You needn't ride under the sun,
For there's ne'er a doctor in old Scotland
Can cure what I have done.