As I Walked Out Into Her Hall

DESCRIPTION: "As I walked out into her hall, Just like some crazy fellow," the singer tries to lure Miss Kate into the valley. She says her father might see them, and urges him to climb a tree and hide. She leaves him up the tree and goes home
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1979 (Tennessee Folklore Society recording, The Hicks Family)
KEYWORDS: courting seduction lie | tree
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania,pp. 130-133, "Kitty Maury" (1 text) (pp. 109-110 in the 1919 edition, where it is "Katie Maury")
Roud #4851
RECORDINGS:
Carmen McCord Hicks, "As I Walked out into Her Hall" (Piotr-Archive #471, recorded 01/29/2023)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Katie Morey" [Laws N24] (plot)
NOTES [54 words]: Sort of "The Baffled Knight" meets Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale." I initially lumped Shoemaker's version with "Katie Morey" [Laws N24], for obvious reasons, but now that I know there is another version with the tree motif, the tree seems to be a sufficient reason to distinguish the songs. They are probably related, however. - RBW
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File: DPio471

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