General Information[]
Performer: Clarence Ashley
Instrumentation: Banjo
Date of recording: 1930
Record label: Columbia
Serial #:15654D(WI94982)
Summary[]
(As summarized by Harry Smith, The Anthology Of American Folk Music) "WIFE AND MOTHER FOLLOWS CARPENTER TO SEA; MOURNS BABE AS SHIP GOES DOWN" (2)
Information On This Song[]
This song is a rendition of Child Ballad #243 (James Harris-The Daemon Lover), it is most like version "B" of said ballad. There is also a Broadside version of this ballad from 1685 (later reprinted in c. 1711-1732) entitled "A Warning for Married Women.Being an Example of Mrs. Jane Reynolds (a weſt-country-Woman) born neer Plimouth who having plighted her troth to a Seaman, was afterwards married to a Carpenter, and at laſt carried away by a Spirit, the manner how ſhall presently be recited."
Albums Featuring This Song[]
- The Anthology Of American Folk Music
- Songcatcher II
- Greenback Dollar (1929-1933)
- Before The Blues, Vol. 3
- Old Time Music at Newport
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- List Of Ballad Renditions
- Tragic Love Ballads