Discussion of songs forbidden by her parents, who believed play parties were sinful. She sings fragments of play songs ""Skip to My Lou,"" ""Charlie's Neat, and ""Three Dukes a Roving."" (Item identified in AFS card as ""Skip to My Lou."")
Followed by discussion. Jackson says she learned the ballad from a book of English poetry. Identified alternately as ""Lady Nancy"" and ""William and Mary"" on AFS cards. A variant of ""Lady Diamond"" (Child #269).
Discussion of feuds and violence in the Kentucky and Virginia coal fields. Jackson ventures that the source of so much violence was the misery of living conditions.
This husband of mine was not only a Negro hater but he was also an infidel."" Recounts an incident with a stovepipe before discussing a feud he had with the Hendricks family. Identified on AFS card as ""Monologue on feuds and their causes.""
Jackson discusses her husband, Jim Stewart, half Indian and half Scotch-Irish, whipping a woman who he caught trying to abandon a mixed race infant, and recounts her husband's racism. (Identified as part of Jackson's commentary ""Monologue on feuds and their causes"" in the AFS catalog
Recounting the lynching of a mixed-race couple by the KKK. ""Well, I thought that the KKK was the main thing, and that they was the finest people out, that they kept down crime and all these things. But later on I found out that they just hung people and destroyed people and it's nothing more than a racket just like a lot of other things.""
Molly says this was a favorite song of her father's and of her grandfather Garland. Discussion follows about the ""lone pilgrim"" - Molly's explanation is a bit different than the facts of Joseph Thomas, the historical personage the song is about.
Identified as ""The Little Dove"" on AFS card. Commentary follows
Jackson says her grandparents knew the composer, and claims he was a Kentuckian. (Lomax recorded a nearly identical version in the Ozarks in 1959 by Almeda Riddle.)