Likely learned from the 1928 Emry Arthur record (originally composed as "Down In the Lehigh Valley by William W. Delaney, c. 1880). Identified as Henrietta and Ernestine Wilson on AFS card
names here announced by E.L. Harold on disc. Harold also announces the site of the session as Wrigley, Ky., seven miles north of West Liberty, although W.L. appears on AFS card. Guitar arbitrarily assigned.
Currently as: Lomax, John A., Alan Lomax, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Folk Songs and Ballads. Dover, 2000.
These later Henson recordings are given an estimated date and might have been recorded on October 11 with the others, and later dubbed to new discs at the Library of Congress.
Preceded by discussion of singer, multi-instrumentalist, and blacksmith Jack Welsh (Welch?). He worked at the Black Raven mines in Bell Co., Ky. A composite of assorted floating verses
title is first line that given by Lomax on AFS card.
title is first line (see side B) that given by Lomax on AFS card. Discussion follows of singer and multi-instrumentalist Jack Welsh (Welch?), from whom, presumably, she learned the song, and of guitars in the mountains.
Neither this performance nor the item 1563A2 appear in the AFS catalog. See note regarding Trusty on 1562B1, "I Don't Want Your Millons, Mister" (which shares the melody of "I Have No Mother Now).
Ms. Pace warns that the song, which has an AAAB structure, has "nigger language." Machine malfunctions two-thirds through the song, distorting and speeding up.