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The Sinful Maiden

from Dear Balladeer by Forest Mountain Hymnal

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The Sinful Maiden (Niles No. 6) – Collected July 5, 1932 from Solomon Holcom in Whitesburg, KY

As she walked by the jailhouse,
She heard a fellow say,
“It’s getting awful lonesome here,
I’d like to get away.”

Then as she was a silly one,
And in her nonage too,
She stole a key and let him out,
A thing she’d often rue.

“Oh Mother, and oh father,
He said I’d be his wife,
He said he’d love and cherish me
As long as I had life.

“But now I’m coming home to you,
And I hope you’ll let me in,
And soon forget the day that I
Committed all this sin.”

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from Dear Balladeer, released January 1, 2015

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Forest Mountain Hymnal Nashville, Tennessee

Forest Mountain Hymnal (Jonathan and Rebecca Moody) is the result of our passion for folk music, fables, and the natural world in which we grew up, both in Nashville, Tennessee and Sewanee, Tennessee at the University of the South. We hope, with our music, to celebrate love, nature, peace, and community. ... more

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