Ballads & Songs of Southern Michigan-songbook
A Collection of 200+ traditional songs & variations with commentaries including Lyrics & Sheet music
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Unhappy Love 33
4 These two sisters went out for a walk; Of the young man they did talk.
5 They wandered down to the river bank; The elder pushed the younger in.
6 "Sister, sister, take my hand,
And you can have the young man and all of his command."
7 She floated down to the miller's brook; The miller caught her with a hook.
8 They hanged the miller on a tree, But the cruel sister she went free. |
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Recorded in 1931 by Mrs. Lillian Ammerman, Detroit, from the singing of her mother, who had learned the song about thirty years earlier, when she was teaching in Nebraska. |
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i Peter and I went down the lane, Down the lane, down the lane; Peter and I went down the lane, And sister came behind.
2 Both of us sisters loved him well, As only I can tell.
3 Peter could love but one of us then, So sister must go away.
4 Sister was bending over the well, When splash, splash, in she fell. |
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