Under the Willow She's Sleeping (The Willow Tree)

DESCRIPTION: "Under the willow she's laid with care (Sang a lone mother while weeping,) Under the willow with golden hair, My little one's quietly sleeping. Fair, fair and golden hair...." The mother laments that the girl sings and plays no more
AUTHOR: Stephen C. Foster
EARLIEST DATE: 1860 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: death love burial mother children
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Belden-BalladsSongsCollectedByMissourFolkloreSociety, p. 484, "Under the Willow" (1 text)
Randolph 711, "The Willow Tree" (1 text, a fragment which Randolph calls "pretty close" to the Foster song, although it has only a few phrases found in the original Foster text)
Saunders/Root-MusicOfStephenCFoster-Vol2, pp. 89-92+427, "Under the Willow She's Sleeping" (1 text, 1 tune)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #2400, p. 161, "Under the Willow She's Sleeping" (2 references)
Roud #7377
SAME TUNE:
The Nation Is Weeping ("Lincoln has fallen! the good and the great," by Louise S. Upham) (Wolf-AmericanSongSheets p. 105)
File: R711

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