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TWELVE APOSTLES (The Ten Commandments)
Cf. Shearin and Combs, p. 34; Campbell and Sharp, No. 109; Brown, p. 11; Flanders and Brown, pp. 83—84. For an English text with the music, see Sharp's One Hundred English Folksongs, p. 226; see also Fuson, p. 187.
"The Two Little White Babes." Recorded by Mrs. Henry from the singing of Mrs. Samuel Harmon, Cade's Cove, Blount County, Tennessee, August, 1930. |
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1. Two of them were lily white babes; Oh, to my one — to my wandering All alone —
Never more shall be so.
2. Three of them were strivers;
Two of them were lily white babes; Oh, to my one — to my wandering All alone — Never more shall be so.
3. Four are the bambrews o'er the bow; Three of them were strivers;
Two of them were lily white babes; Oh, to my one — to my wandering All alone — Never more shall be so.
4. Five the bambrew makers;
Four are the bambrews o'er the bow;
Three of them were strivers;
Two of them were lily white babes;
Oh, to my one — to my wandering
All alone —
Never more shall be so. |
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