Name: Cowboy's Girl (Early, Early In The Spring) by Julie Henigan
Duration: 2 min 13 s
Description: I learned this version of a seventeenth-century English broadside ballad from the Max Hunter Collection and set it to dulcimer.

Learned from the Cecil Sharp collection, this is a Virginia version of "Lord Randall."

American Stranger

John Randolph

"Pretty Polly," learned from a field recording made by Max Hunter of Donia Cooper of West Fork, Arkansas, in 1959. Though the title may remind listeners of the famous American murder ballad, this is actually a version of the Child ballad  #4, "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight." I accompany it here with the lap dulcimer.

Pretty Polly

I learned this version of a seventeenth-century English broadside ballad from the Max Hunter Collection and set it to dulcimer.

Cowboy's Girl (Early, Early In The Spring)

Julie Henigan

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