'Bowee' was originally 'Bow ye' but it has dropped the 'y' and become 'bowee', as is common inScottish familiar speech. 'Bowee Down!' and 'Bow and balance to me!' are a remnant from an old dance jingle, which was occasionally sung by dancers even after the music was furnished by the fiddle. Sometimes the refrain has no connection with the story, as in the short lines of 'The Two Sisters'. 117): "Many of the ballads have a refrain in which all the auditors may join. 27, though no mention is there made of the source. The present text with the exception of a few verbal differences is close to that in James Watt Raine's The Land of the Saddle Bags, Richmond, 1924, p.118, which is the same as that of Richardson and Speath's American Mountain Songs, New York, 1927, p. Add Barry, Journal, XVIII, 130-132 (two texts: A with air, B reprinted in Barry-Eckstorm- Smyth, 40-41 Gray, 75) Sharp MSS., Harvard University Library: several texts with airs, collected in the Southern Highlands. 11 Barry-Eckstorm-Smyth, British Ballads from Maine, p. 5 (eleven versions) Shearin and Combs, p. Davis, Traditional Ballads of Virginia, No. 3 Journal, XVIII, 130 Kittridge, Journal, XXX, 286 Cox, The School Journal and Educator (West Virginia), 1916, XLIV, 428, 441 -442. See also Sharp: Folk-Songs of English Origin, 2nd series, pp. Belden's "Old Country Ballads in Missouri", Journal of American Folk-Lore, XIX, p. version from Campbell and Sharp and a Missouri version imported from Kentucky from H. 4) quote four versions, one from North Carolina and three from Virginia. Henry from the singing of Miss Cora Clark, Crossnore, Avery County, North Carolina, July 12, 1929. STILL MORE BALLADS AND FOLK-SONGS FROM THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDSĪ. Source: The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. Still More Ballads and Folk-Songs from the Southern Highlands
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