Charming Betsy
Title
Charming Betsy
Digital Object
Performer
Jackson, Aunt Molly
Date Recorded
1939-27-05
AFS Number
2554A2
AFC Collection
AFC 1939/012
AFC Collection Name
Alan Lomax recordings of Aunt Molly Jackson
AFC Catalog Record
Editor Note
Lomax: ""Where does that song come from, Molly?"" Jackson: ""It comes from where all the rest of the songs comes from I know - it comes out of the hills."" Lomax: ""Where'd you learn it, though?"" Jackson: ""I learned it in the mountains. I never learned none of these songs no other place for I never was nowhere else to learn nothing.""
Genre
lyric song
Instrumentation
vocal
State
New York
County
New York
Town
New York (Ny.)
Citation
“Charming Betsy,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed March 28, 2024, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/1377.