English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians

122 Songs and Ballads, and 323 Tunes With Lyrics & sheet Music - online book

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The Two Sisters
10   And it's off her finger took five gold rings, And into the brook he pushed her again.
11   The miller was hung at his mill gate For drowning of my sister Kate.
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Heptatonic. Mode i, a + b (mixolydian influence).
Sung by Mr. Nuel Walton at Mt. Fair, Va., Sept. 26, 1916
2 That young man bought a beaver hat, The oldest one thought hard of that.
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