Wild Bill Jones [Laws E10]

DESCRIPTION: The singer meets his sweetheart, (Lula), walking with Wild Bill Jones. Since Bill will not leave Lula alone (or vice versa), the singer shoots him. Lula will not bail him out of prison, so the singer spends his last days wildly
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1916 (Cecil Sharp collection)
KEYWORDS: courting revenge homicide prison death jealousy
FOUND IN: US(Ap,SE,So)
REFERENCES (17 citations):
Laws E10, "Wild Bill Jones"
Randolph 151, Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
Warner-TraditionalAmericanFolkSongsFromAnneAndFrankWarnerColl 139, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
Chappell-FolkSongsOfRoanokeAndTheAlbermarle 114, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text)
Hudson-FolksongsOfMississippi 102, pp. 239-240, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text); cf. #13, pp. 91-93, "The Lass of Roch Royal" (1 fragments, of which "A" is the "Pretty Little Foot" with a chorus from "Careless Love" and "B" is two "Pretty Little Foot" stanzas artificially and wrongly extracted from the text of "Wild Bill Jones" cited above)
Cambiaire-EastTennesseeWestVirginiaMountainBallads, p. 19, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text)
Sharp-EnglishFolkSongsFromSouthernAppalachians 99, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
Bush-FSofCentralWestVirginiaVol2, pp. 49-50, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roberts-SangBranchSettlers, #18, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lomax-FolkSongsOfNorthAmerica 140, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lunsford/Stringfield-30And1FolkSongsFromSouthernMountains, pp. 6-7, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood-NewLostCityRamblersSongbook, p. 146, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
Richardson/Spaeth-AmericanMountainSongs, pp. 36-37, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
Burton/Manning-EastTennesseeStateCollectionVol2, pp. 34-35, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune); pp. 100-101, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
Spaeth-WeepSomeMoreMyLady, pp. 134-135, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 622, WILDBILL*
ADDITIONAL: _Sing Out_ magazine, Volume 23, #6 (1975), p, 5, "Wild Bill Jones" (1 text, 1 tune, apparently the Ralph Stanley version)
Roud #2246
RECORDINGS:
Clarence Ashley & Tex Isley, "Wild Bill Jones" (on Ashley01)
Frank Bode, "Wild Bill Jones" (on FBode1)
Dock Boggs, "Wild Bill Jones" (on Boggs1, BoggsCD1)
Granville Bowlin, "Wild Bill Jones" (on MMOKCD)
Eva Davis, "Wild Bill Jones" (Columbia 129-D, 1924; on RoughWays2)
Logan English, "Wild Bill Jones" (on LEnglish01)
Kelly Harrell, "Wild Bill Jones" (OKeh 40486, 1925; on KHarrell01)
Wade Mainer & his Little Smilin' Rangers, "Wild Bill Jones" (Bluebird B-7249, 1937)
George Reneau, "Wild Bill Jones" (Vocalion 14998, 1925)
Ernest V. Stoneman "Wild Bill Jones" (Edison 51869, 1926) (CYL: Edison [BA] 5196, 1926)
Tobacco Tags, "Wild Bill Jones" (Bluebird B-8365, 1940)
Welby Toomey, "Wild Bill Jones" (Gennett 3228, 1926; Challenge 158 [as Bob Ferguson]/Challenge 324 [as John Ferguson], 1927; rec. 1925)
File: LE10

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