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Child's Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight, collected by Edith Walker, Boone, N.C.
Mrs Nora Hicks  sung it to 
3  me one spring while they were 
living up in Rich Mt. -E. W
#4 Pretty Cold Rain

He followed me up and he followed me down,
He followed me where I lay;
I had not the heart to tell him to be gone,
Nor tongue to say oh no.

Go bring me some of your father's gold,
Likewise your mother's fee;
And I will take you to the salt sea waters
And there I'll marry thee.

She brought him some of her father's gold,
Likewese her mother's fee;
And they went on 'to her father's horse stable
Where his horses thirty and three.

He mounted he4r upon the Turkish brown
And himself on the iron gray;
They were at the salt sea waters
Three hours before it came day.

Light down, light down, you pretty Cold Rain,
Light down, I say to thee.
Right here I'vedrowned six kings' daughters
And the seventh you shall be.

Pull off, pull off them gay new clothes,
Throw 'em on yonder stone,
For they air too fine and too costly
To be rotted in the salt sea foam.

It's turn your back toward the pretty green leaves
And your face toward the sea,
For you are not fitten, you false fighted villian,
For a naked woman to see.

He turned his back to the pretty green leaves
And his face toward the sea,
She picked him up in her arms so strong
And plunged him in the sea.

Your hand, your hand, my pretty Cold Rain,
Your hand, I say to thee;
And all the pronises I ever made to thee
I'll double them thirty and three.

Lie there, lie there, you false-lighted vissain,
(Lie there, I say to thee)
You said you'd drowned six kings' daughters
And you yourself the seventh shall be.

She mounted herself on the Turkish brown
And she led the iron gray;
She was at her father's own dwelling
One hour before it came day.