English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians

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	No. 38
	In Seaport Town A Sung by Miss Stella Shelton Mode 3, b (no 6th). at Alleghany, N. C, July 29, 1916

	2 One evening late they were in the room courting. Her oldest brother perchance did hear; He went and told his other brothers: Let's deprive her of her dearest dear. 3 They rose up early the next morning, A game of hunting for to go ; And upon this young man they both insisted For him to go along with them. 4 They wandered over the hills and mountains And through a many of a place unknown, Till at last they came to a lonesome valley And there they killed him dead alone. 5 When they return back the next evening, Their sister ask for the servant man. Saying : We lost him on a game of hunting ; No more of him it's could we find. 6 While she lie on her bedside slumbering, The servant man did appear to her, Saying: Your brother killed me rough and cruel All wallowed in a score of blood. 7 She rose up early the next morning; She dressed herself in a rich array, Saying : I'll go and find my best beloved All wallowed in a score of blood.
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