44. Which will.After 4:I must not come, I dare not come,I cannot come at all,For if my mother should call for me,I cannot hear her call.
44. Which will.After 4:I must not come, I dare not come,I cannot come at all,For if my mother should call for me,I cannot hear her call.
44. Which will.After 4:I must not come, I dare not come,I cannot come at all,For if my mother should call for me,I cannot hear her call.
44. Which will.After 4:
I must not come, I dare not come,
I cannot come at all,
For if my mother should call for me,
I cannot hear her call.
54. To entice this.
After5 (compare Miss Perine’s own version,H6):She put him in a little chair,She pinned him with a pin,And then she called for a wash-basin,To spill his heart’s blood in.
After5 (compare Miss Perine’s own version,H6):She put him in a little chair,She pinned him with a pin,And then she called for a wash-basin,To spill his heart’s blood in.
After5 (compare Miss Perine’s own version,H6):She put him in a little chair,She pinned him with a pin,And then she called for a wash-basin,To spill his heart’s blood in.
After5 (compare Miss Perine’s own version,H6):
She put him in a little chair,
She pinned him with a pin,
And then she called for a wash-basin,
To spill his heart’s blood in.
63. dressing.
72. And the.
8comes before6.
83. they threw: deep dark well.
84. Was fifty fathoms.
9wanting.
J.a.
64. Whereer.
b.
12. It rains both great.
22. And yet it.
33. thou young.
41. I dare not come, I dare not come.
42. Unless my.
43. And I shall be flogged when I get.
53. She laid him on the.
61. The thickest of blood did first come out.
63. The third that came was his dear heart’s blood.
64. Where all his.
7–13wanting.
K.
There are slight changes in the second copy.
42. allwanting.
51,3.The firstaswanting.
L. a.
“After nearly sixty years my memory is not altogether trustworthy, and I am not altogether sure how far I have mixed up my childish recollections with later forms of the ballad which I have read.”
The singer tagged on to this fragment versioncofThe Maid freed from the Gallows,given atII, 352.
b.
13. For all.
31. itwanting.
41. him in.
44. And wiled the young thing in.
5.wanting.
61. him in through one dark door.
62. she has.
63,4.wanting.
65. She’s laid him.
After7:She’s rolled him in a cake of lead,Bade him lie still and sleep,And thrown him in St Mary’s well,’Twas fifty fathoms deep.When bells were rung, and mass was sung,And all the boys came home,Then every mother had her own son,But Lady Maisy had none.
After7:She’s rolled him in a cake of lead,Bade him lie still and sleep,And thrown him in St Mary’s well,’Twas fifty fathoms deep.When bells were rung, and mass was sung,And all the boys came home,Then every mother had her own son,But Lady Maisy had none.
After7:She’s rolled him in a cake of lead,Bade him lie still and sleep,And thrown him in St Mary’s well,’Twas fifty fathoms deep.
After7:
She’s rolled him in a cake of lead,
Bade him lie still and sleep,
And thrown him in St Mary’s well,
’Twas fifty fathoms deep.
When bells were rung, and mass was sung,And all the boys came home,Then every mother had her own son,But Lady Maisy had none.
When bells were rung, and mass was sung,
And all the boys came home,
Then every mother had her own son,
But Lady Maisy had none.
N.
“The writer was not a little surprised to hear from a group of colored children, in the streets of New York city (though in a more incoherent form), the following ballad. He traced the song to a little girl living in one of the cabins near Central Park, from whom he obtained this version.... The mother of the family had herself been born in New York, of Irish parentage, but had learned from her own mother, and handed down to her children, such legends of the past as the ballad we cite.”Communicated to me by Mr. Newell some considerable time before publication.
O.
3. “One of the Jew’s daughters, ‘a-dressed all in green,’ issues from the garden and says, Come in, etc.”