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FTX-929 - THE HOUSE CARPENTER

Rebecca King Jones & Lee Monroe Presnell

REBECCA KING JONES was over 70 when visited by the Warners in 1940. She usually wore a calico dress, apron, boots and a sunbonnet. She lived alone in a little cabin in the woods at Crab Tree Creek, between Raleigh and Durham in North Carolina.

LEE MONROE PRESNELL, Buna Hick's uncle, learnt most of his songs from his mother and father. Anne Warner says of him: "Monroe was tall and handsome, gentle, courteous and admired by all who knew him".

 
   

HOUSE CARPENTER - BARBARA ALLEN - DROWSY SLEEPER - CHIMBLEY SWEEPER - ROCK-A-BY-BABY - GOING DOWN TO WELDON - WICKED OLD DONKEY - DRUNKARD'S DREAM - SWEET WILLIAM - CRUEL WARS ARE RAGING - BRAVE OLD SOLDIER - COTTAGE BY THE SEA - L:ORD THOMAS AND FAIR ELLEN - GOLDEN LOCKS - ROSEWOOD CASKET - GEORGE COLLINS - RED ROSY BUSH - TWO SISTERS - FAREWELL TO OLD BEDFORD - GRANDMOTHERS OLD ARMSCHAIR - DUBLIN CITY - SOMETIMES I'M IN THIS COUNTRY - AWAKE AWAKE - DRUNKARD'S WARNING - MY SWEET SOLDIER BOY - OLD VIRGINNY - JOHNNY O JOHNNY - I WENT TO SEE MY MOLLY

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