human
Can you continue this poem for me?
  There is every reason to believe that many more such await the
quasi-literary, or pseudo-literary types into the current of oral
Owen--all lying in Central and Eastern Kentucky.
assistant
Sure, a continuation for this poem could be:
  Michigan, and another of The Pretty Mohee, page 12, was sent from
Under each of these eighteen main divisions the treatment of the
identification.
The miller was hung upon Fish-gate, Bosodown,
The miller was hung upon Fish-gate,
(These sons were sent to me)
The miller was hung upon Fish-gate
For drowning of my sister Kate!
I'll be true, true to my true-love,
If my love'll be true to me.
LORD LOVELY, 4a3b4c3b, 9: A variant of Lord Lovel, Child, No. 75.
He put the sheepskin to his wife's back, Dandoo;
He put the sheepskin to his wife's back,
Clima cli clash to ma clingo,
He put the sheepskin to his wife's back,
And he made the old switch go whickity-whack,
Then rarum scarum skimble arum
Skitty-wink skatty-wink
Clima cli clash to ma clingo.
There was a ship sailed for the North Amerikee,
From down in the lonesome Lowlands low--
There was a ship sailed for the North Amerikee,
And she went by the name of the Green Willow Tree,
And she sailed from the Lowlands low.
As we marched down to Fernario,
As we marched down to Fernario,
Our captain fell in love with a lady like a dove,
And they called her by name Pretty Peggy, O.
THE APPRENTICE BOY, iii, 4abcb, 12ca: Like Keats's Isabella, the
Sing tidri-i-odre-erdri-um,
Sing fol-de-ri-o-day!
THE GOLDEN GLOVE, ii, 4aabb, 9: A mariner's daughter, about to be
I called for a quart to drive gladness away
To stifle the dust--it had rained the whole day.
Inverness-shire, July, 1745, beginning:
There's news from Mordart came yestreen,
Will soon yastremony (sic) ferly,
For ships o'er all have just come in
And landed royal Charlie.
_The songs of this group are connected more or less closely with
rambling.
MOLLY, 6aabb, 4: An Irish lad comes to America, courts Molly, but
IRISH GIRL, a fragment, as follows:
So costly were the robes of silk
The Irish girl did wear--
Her hair was as black as a raven,
Her eyes were black as a crow,
Her cheeks were red as roses
That in the garden grow.
THE GUERRILLA MAN, 3a3b4c3b, 5: A Southern soldier goes to Shelby
MURFREESBORO, 4a3b4c3b, 7: A Union soldier lies dying on the
ZOLLICOFFER: A fragment as follows:
Old Zollicoffer's dead, and the last word he said
Was, "I'm going back South; they're a-gaining."
If he wants to save his soul, he had better keep his hole,
Or we'll land him in the happy land of Canaan.
_The songs of this group relate to the days of pioneer migration
CALIFORNIA JOE, 3abcb, 17: A prospector during the California
JESSE JAMES, 2aa3b2cc3b and 2aa3b2cc3b, 4: A lyric concerning the
_The songs of this group are of the "good-night" type, being the
I heard my mother talking; I took it all for fun.
assassinations, feudal battles, and disasters._
FLOYD FRAZIER, 3abcb, 16: A recital of Frazier's murder of Ellen
execution.
Get up in the morning 'way before day,
Feed old Beck some corn and hay.
Get up in the morning soon, soon;
Get up in the morning soon.
ROSIN THE BOW: a fragment as follows:
I'll tune up my fiddle, I'll rosin my bow,
And make myself welcome wherever I go.
_The songs of this group are of partisan or sectional character._
JAMES A. GARFIELD: A fragment, as follows:
Mr. James A. Garfield is dead,
Oh, Mr. James A. Garfield is dead.
I will weep like a willow,
And I'll mourn like a dove;
Mr. James A. Garfield is dead.
BARNEY AND KATE, 4abab, 6: Barney, maudlin with drink, comes one
While the birds they were singing in the morning,
And the ivy and the myrtle were in bloom,
The sun on the hill-top was dawning,
It was then we laid her in the tomb.
LONESOME DOVE, 4aabb, 8: The singing of a dove bereft of its mate
WAIT FOR THE WAGON, 3abcbdefe and 4a(_ter_), 4: A lover's call to
He is like the blue-birds ever
That flies from tree to tree;
And when he sees another girl
He never thinks of me.
I USED TO LOVE, 4abcb and 4abcb, 4: A maiden voices her complaint
THE BUTCHER'S BOY, iii, 4aabb, 8ca: A maiden voices her complaint
THE PALE AMARANTHUS, 4aabb, 5: A maiden's complaint against her
faithless lover, whom she vows to forget.
Say, must I be forgotten,
Cast like a flower aside?
Have I from memory faded,
Once all your joy and pride?
A second version contains only an elaboration of this last motif.
respectively, question and reply of lover and sweetheart, who is
"sixteen next Sunday" and has to "ask her mammy."
lawyer's daughter and pledges his troth to Kate.
POOR OLD MAID, metre as below, 5: She laments her virginity:
Dressed in yaller, pink, and blue--
Poor old maid!
Dressed in yaller, pink, and blue,
I'm just as sweet as the morning dew,
And to a husband I'd stick like glue--
Poor old maid!
I WISH I WAS SINGLE AGAIN, metre as below, 5: A married man's
repentance: his first wife died--
I married me another, O then, O then;
I married me another O then;
I married me another, the Devil's grandmother,
And I wish I was single again.
baggage-coach ahead.
LITTLE MAUDIA, 4abcb, 6: A dying girl's farewell to her mother.
OLD CHURCH-YARD, 4abcb, 7: A forlorn orphan's meditation upon her
Twelve, twelve apostles,
Eleven, eleven, I went to heaven,
Ten, ten, commandments,
Nine bright lights a-shining,
Eight Gabel [Gabriel?] angels,
Seven stars a-hanging high,
Six, six go acymord,
Five all alone abroard,
Four scorn in Wackford,
Three of them are drivers,
Two of them are little lost babes,
Oh, my dear Savior,
One, one is left alone,
One to be left alone.
Yonder goes the bluebird through the window
THE RAILROAD, ii: To be characterized as the above, yet totally
different, beginning:
Out on the railroad, O Jubilee,
Waiting for my darling, O Jubilee.
Here she sits in her sad station.
LONG SUMMER DAY, ii: In general form and function like the above,
Skate around the ocean,
In a long summer day.
A-moaning and groaning,
And that shall be the cry.
We're marching round the levy,
For we have gained the day.
Now we'll promenade, one, two, three,
So early in the morning.
Here comes two dukes a-roving,
With a high-o-ransom-day.
Steal your partner, skip to my lou,
Skip to my lou, my darling.
FOL DOL SOL, 4a3b4c3b, 2ca: One quatrain is:
If you love me as I love you,
We have not long to tarry;
We'll keep the old folks fixing up
For you and me to marry.
GREEN GROWS THE WILLOW, 4aaaa, 4ca: One quatrain is:
Green grow the rashes O,
Green grow the rashes O,
Kiss her quick and let her go,
For yonder comes her mammy O.
THE JOLLY MILLER, iii, metre as follows, 2:
Jolly is the miller that lives by the mill,
The wheel goes round with a right good will,
One hand in the hopper and the other in the sack--
The boys step forward and the girls step back.
SISTER PHOEBE, 4aab, 2: It begins:
Old sister Phoebe, how happy were we
The night we sat under the juniper tree,
The juniper tree, heigh ho, heigh ho.
NEEDLE'S EYE, as follows:
Needle's eye that doth supply
The thread that runs so true;
Many a beau have I let go
Because I wanted you.
GREEN GRAVEL, 4aabb, 4ca: It begins:
Green gravel, green gravel, the grass is so green;
You're the prettiest maiden that ever was seen.
We're marching down to Old Quebec,
Where the fifes and drums are beating;
America has gained the day
And the British are retreating.
And one and two is three;
Dance around the maypole
Just like me.
Come along, my dearest dear,
Present to me your hand;
We are roaming in succession
To some far and distant land.
Where, oh where, is pretty little Mary?
Way down yonder in the bouquet patch.
GO IN AND OUT AT THE WINDOW: An endless, rimeless improvisation
containing the dance calls in order.