Katie Lee and Willie Gray

DESCRIPTION: "Two brown heads with glossy curls... Little boy and girl were they, Katie Lee and Willie Gray." The pretty boy and girl are described. As they grew up, they fell/stayed in love and married; now she rocks a cradle where once she carried a basket
AUTHOR: unknown (see NOTES)
EARLIEST DATE: 1864 (Dime-Song-Book #14)
KEYWORDS: love marriage family
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Dime-Song-Book #14, pp. 46-47, "Katie Lee and Willie Gray" (1 text)
Randolph 773, "Katie Lee and Willie Gray" (1 text)
Newman/Devlin-NeverWithoutASong, pp. 220-221, "Katie Lee and Willie Gray" (1 text)
ST R773 (Partial)
Roud #5255
NOTES [45 words]: Randolph's informant reported that this comes from the Hutchinson family. Felleman's The Best Loved Poems of the American People lists attributions to Josie R. Hunt and J. H. Pixley, but Felleman's attributions are too unreliable for me to list them as the authors. - RBW
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File: R773

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