On the Banks of the Old Mohawk

DESCRIPTION: "It's all about my sweetiest Julia, And she looked just as natural as she lie. They buried her deep... On the banks of the old Mohawk." The singer recalls the time they spent by the river. She was sewing when she became sick and died.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1946 (Peters-FolkSongsOutOfWisconsin)
KEYWORDS: death separation wife
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Peters-FolkSongsOutOfWisconsin, pp. 123-124, "On the Banks of the Old Mohawk" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Roud #15667
NOTES [75 words]: Dime-Song-Book #2, p. 11, has a song "Banks of the Old Mohawk," which has a very similar theme but isn't really the same as that in Peters -- e.g. it has no girl's name, it doesn't mention sewing, and it doesn't say that she was buried deep. Roud lumps them, but my inclination is to say that they are separate songs; perhaps the Peters version, from Lester Coffee, was a reconstructed version based on the memory of the nineteenth century song. - RBW
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