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Hawkins, Martha

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voice Collected by: James Ward Lee and RalphE. Roberts for Mary Celestia Parler Transcribed by James Ward Lee and Ralph E, Roberts Recited by: Martha Hawkins Combs, Arkansas July 26, 1958 Reel 241 Item 2 The Green Briar Shore At the foot of younders mountain, Where fountains doth flow, I spied a fair damsel, On the Green Briar shore. I courted that damsel, Through all wit and skill, I courted that damsel, Through love and good will; I courted that damsel, Full six months or more. And I was forced to go and leave her, On the Green Briar shore. I hadn't been gone long, When the letter was sent, In the midst of that letter, These words they were spelt; Come back my own true love, For you I adore, And I will go with you, From the Green Briar shore. And when her own parents, Came this for to hear her, They thought they would deprive her, Of her own dearest dear; They collected an army, F u l l twenty or more, To fight her own true love, On the Green Briar shore. He took out a sword, And it glittered all around, In a short length of time, Some fell dead on the ground; Ok, some he killed dea d, And some he wounded full sore, And he gained his own true love, On the Green Briar shore. To hard is the fortune, Of all woman kind, They're always controlled. They're always confined; They are controlled...
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Lee, James Ward; Roberts, Ralph E.Lee, James Ward; Roberts, Ralph E.
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1958 07 26
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Ozark Folksong Collection

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University of Arkansas

Keywords

  1. A Capella Singing
  2. Courting
  3. Courtship
  4. Mountain, Courtship, Separation, Fight, Murder, Women
  5. Quarreling
  6. Separation
  7. Separation (Psychology)
  8. Wisdom
  9. Women

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