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THE DIVER BOY (YOUNG EDMOND DELL; YOUNG EDWIN IN THE LOWLANDS LOW) Sung by: Mrs. Ollie Gilbert Recorded in Timbo, AR 10/13/59 Click here to listen to the original recording She loved her diver boy, Who sailed the ocean over To gather up some gold. Seven long years returning, His money for to show That he’d been traveling o’er the main, Down in the lowland low. My father runs a big hotel Down by the riverside. You go there, call for to stay, And I will be your bride. Meet me early in the morning; Don’t let my parents know That you are the diver boy Who diven in the lowland low. Young Henry taken a drink that night Before he went to bed, Not thinking of the danger That crowned all over his head. Young Edward said to his father, “Let’s make his money sure, And send his body sinking facedown In the lowland low.” Young Emily went to bed that night. She dreamed an awful dream. She dreamed she saw her true love lad Go floating down the stream. Waking early in the morning, To her parents she did say, “Where could be the stranger boy Who came here for to stay?” “Oh, Father, you are a robber; You've robbed me of my rest. Oh, brother, you have murdered The one that I loved best. For the trees on yonders mountain Are bending to and fro. Reminds me of my diver boy Who diven in the lowland low. Also found in Randolph, Vol. II, #140, “Young Edmond Dell”; Brown, Vol. II, #79, “Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low.” |
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