Given to me by Louise Comer whose Aunt
at Stoneville, N. C. sang it to her.
Down on the Banks of Ohio
I. Come my love lets take
a walk. Just to lead a way
the wourf while we
walk a long we will talk
talk a bout our wedding
day.
Chorse
Only say that you will
be mine in our home
we will happy be,
down beside where the
water's flow, down on
the banks of the Ohio.
II.
I drew my knif a cross
her throat and to my
brest she gently pressed
"please" oh please don’t
murder me for I am
unprepared to die you see
III. I took her by her little white
hand and I lead her down
to a verder stand, and as
(over)
The images and audio files contained in the "So Mote It Ever Be: The Folksong Heritage of North Carolina's Northern Blue Ridge Mountains" collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. I. G. Greer/W. Amos Abrams Manuscript Files Series, Folksong Files Subseries, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC). Any commercial use of the materials without the written permission of Appalachian State University is strictly prohibited. Please contact the Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection with specific questions or with requests for further information.